“The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the two parties, which are corporations. We should have public presidential debates all over America run by public institutions.” ShouldTwoRunningAmericaPartyMediaShould HaveInstitutionsDebateCorporationsPresidentialPresidential Debate Author:Ralph Nader
“I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensJobsAmericaBitsSidesPresidentTermResultsTalkingLeaderMediaTrumpVictoryPoliticianLaughterMy FriendsStealingMinistersOppositionAustraliaImmigrantsPrimeElitesPrime MinisterAmazing ThingsReally Amazing Author:Richard Glover
“I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.” YearsHas BeensJobsAmericaUsedMy OwnMediaSkinsCriticsThickThick Skin Author:Megyn Kelly
“We don't have media literacy in America in any kind of substantive way. If we did, I think that (A) more of us would've recognized the threat that Trump posed from the beginning, and (B) no one would have been surprised at the bigotry that was in the DNA of his campaign.” IfsThinkingWayKindHas BeensAmericaMediaTrumpThreatCampaignsBigotryLiteracyDnaMedia Literacy Author:Jennifer Pozner
“Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot of people are still unaware that I never intended to end up in Russia. They're not aware that journalists were live-tweeting pictures of my seat on the flight to Latin America I wasn't able to board because the US government revoked my passport.” PeopleStillsEndsGovernmentAbleAmericaReadingTalkingMediaInformationPaperRussiaFlightJournalistBoardsSeatsLatinPapersLatin AmericaPassports Author:Edward Snowden
“Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.” AmericaBlackWhiteMediaRedCorporateRevolutionaryBrownControlledThinkerRepresentation Author:Louis Farrakhan