“Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.” WellsMightInterestAttitudeClassShareMediaPositionPerceptionGainsExpectedAspirationConcentrationElitesOwnershipPrivilegedAssociatesReflectingCommentators Book:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
“I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.” SaidSometimesRememberHouseWishResponsibilityClassMediaMovementMembersMassTradeLiftsSecretaryWorking ClassMass MediaOperatorsBroadcastersPrinter Author:Tony Benn
“The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansMovingDifferencesClassMediaPolicyAdventureInvolvedCivilizationApproachSmartSolutionsManagementDon't BelieveEstablishmentPanicAgricultureApocalypseStarvationSmart PeopleHuman CivilizationClass Differences Author:Terence McKenna
“Having someone in your class call you fat, ugly, too tall and so on, you start to think all those things about yourself. And if you're like me, those words are played on repeat inside your head. When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them. Now we have so many more social outlets, there are so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account, just be yourself. Be who you want to be.” IfsThinkingWayWantFeelsPlayHomeSocialFeltClassToo MuchMediaHavensSafeAccountsUglySocial MediaHandleLike MeFatsRepeatsBeing YourselfTallAbout YourselfMy SisterOutletsBulliedJust Be YourselfSafe Haven Author:Khloe Kardashian
“Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.” PeopleHas BeensArtReasonFormBlackWhiteClassMediaMusic IsDecidedGiantsBlack People Author:Toni Morrison
“In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.” HumansMayPoorClassRichMiddleMediaFashionMiddle ClassEndeavorAdoptedSocial ChangeChildbirthFilters Author:Jessica Mitford
“What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription drugs. That's why they are also dying. They are dying in Iraq because they are poor and they have gone into the military because they can't afford to go to college. They're dying because they're living in communities where asthma rates are extremely high because the air is filthy. The suffering of the poor and working class people is a virtual nonissue for the media. But that is the reality.” PeopleRealityTodaySufferingCommunityPoorClassGoneAirDyingMediaMilitaryTelevisionCollegeDrugDoctorsRateIraqWorking ClassPrescriptionsFilthyPrescription DrugsAsthmaPeople Dying Author:Bernie Sanders
“Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.” PeopleYearsInterestingClassMediaLike YouCatholicBoringOld PeopleNun Author:Lino Rulli
“The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it.” ThinkingWarRealClassInfluenceMediaClaimsInstitutionsCourtCongressContraryFavorsMeaningfulEndlessChecksAdministrationEstablishmentDisputesSecrecyConstraintsBoundlessContinuation Author:Glenn Greenwald
“The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.” GivingCountryWholeKidsClassMediaNew YorkWeightMathCheatAsianNew York TimesMath Class Author:Bill Maher
“As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.” PoliticalThreeClassRiskMediaEnvironmentalMilesIslandsSpillsHysteriaAdverseThree Mile Island Author:Steven F. Hayward
“Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.” CountryPoliticalClassMediaCitizensOur CountryElites Author:Carly Fiorina
“It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.” PeopleIfsYearsSometimesHappensSchoolJobsClassTeacherMediaBuildingAidsDiscriminationIntenseWorriedGymTwelveHaitiGym Class Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.” AmericaRaceClassSubjectsMediaTabooPerversionAmerican Media Author:Jim Shepard
“I guess I'm also obligated to note that the experience of sex workers who are not upper/middle class/white probably have much worse conditions than anything that's portrayed commonly in media/what I experienced.” SexWhiteClassMiddleConditionsMediaNotesWorkersMiddle ClassUpper Middle Class Author:Marie Calloway
“I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.” PeopleRealFeelingsRealityJobsHouseWhiteTalkingWonderClassStreetsMiddleMediaWallPercentQuittingMiddle ClassWhite HouseUnemploymentGood JobNotableTalking Heads Author:Jim Clifton
“This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.” MeanImportantCountryWholeAmericaWealthClassIssuesEconomicMiddleMediaPercentBottomDisappearIncomeCorporateMiddle ClassEconomic SystemsImportant IssuesRigged Author:Bernie Sanders
“In terms of media, we did not get the kind of media attention that somebody like a Donald Trump got, because media is not necessarily interested in the issues facing the middle class, more interested in attacks in personality. So I think there were a lot of reasons.” ThinkingKindReasonTermAttentionClassIssuesMiddleMediaPersonalityTrumpMiddle Class Author:Bernie Sanders
“The other girls [in team] have experience. They've been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect and what to do and what not to do. Me and Aly [Raisman] just gave them advice on the media side. We said, it's gonna be crazy. It's the Olympics. But it's gonna be fun!” WorldSaidGirlFunSidesClassTeamCrazyAdviceStageMediaInternationalOlympicsCompetingBeing CrazyOther GirlWorld Class Author:Gabby Douglas
“Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media.” ClassMiddleMediaTrumpEconomicsSickTiredMiddle ClassEstablishment Author:Bernie Sanders