“Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.” KnowsWorldHumansCountryStatesAmericaSpeakDemocracyRightsMediaArmsNewsIndependentWingsHuman RightsCurrentsDoctrineCorporateFairnessCredibilityRight WingConsolidationIndependent Media Author:Janeane Garofalo
“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.” PeopleWarLyingSupportMediaArmsIndustryCorporateLegendsRumorPumpsInnuendoMega Author:Mumia Abu-Jamal
“The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.” IfsWantNeedsAttentionMoralMediaArmsIslamBillionsMeaningfulPeacefulMessRadicalMake SenseGuidanceDistinctionMinoritiesPushingCaptureRighteousExtremistObservantMoral LifeReligion Of Islam Author:Reza Aslan
“Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.” TodayLastsNightSocialRaceGoneHappenedMediaArmsTomorrowToolsHotClubsSocial MediaReplacedArms RacePingNight Club Author:Mark McKinnon
“My answer is that [Donald] Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he's had every establishment off side; Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence [agencies], arms companies... big foreign money ... are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.” IfsWellsBigsWinningSidesAnswersUnitedBehindsCompanyMediaArmsTrumpClintonJournalistAgencyExceptionOwnersEstablishmentIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange