“The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.” WorldPersonsSpeakNationsPresidentAttentionMediaEventsPlanetsGreat PowerProminent Author:David Frum
“Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.” PeopleWorldHumansCountryStatesPoliticalNationsCausesProcessUnitedLibertyMillionsRightsMediaDevelopmentIndependenceConclusionReportsRegionsScholarRecallsLowestUnited NationsPublishCoveringCivil LibertiesHuman DevelopmentAnalystsPolitical Rights Author:Larry Elder
“Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.” Has BeensNationsLevelsTakenStreetsMediaNewsAdministrationEditorsCowardiceVansIntimidatedBulliedHigh LevelTimidityKatrinaDensNews MediaMemosDowningDowning Street Author:Frank Rich
“While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.” KnowsLongNationsNaturalMediaCarMovementPercentIncludingNuclearAlternativesDependentGasInternalsZeroRealisticEnginesSavagesGod KnowsAutomobileTransportationHybridGasolineHydrogenNatural GasCombustionPanaceaBovinePropane Author:Brock Yates
“The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.” RealityAmericaMovingNationsFourPlansMediaBenefitsLowsWheelsGasInternalsBusEnginesElitesLoyalConventionalMultitudesHarshUtopiaTrumpetsHybridCombustionDrivewayToyotaHarsh RealityMileage Author:Brock Yates
“USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.” MenLooksNationsMediaInformationProduceGeniusWeaponsNewsNuclearBlockUsaNuclear WeaponsElectricSophisticatedCagesHandfulCablesCensurePentagonNbcGeneral ElectricNbc News Author:Gore Vidal
“I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoWould BeTodayNationsSawsMediaTelevisionCamerasCarnageGettysburgTwo NationsMcclellan Author:George Will
“There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.” ThinkingChristianPoliticalNationsReligiousClearMediaMainstreamPolitical Life Author:Erwin W. Lutzer
“I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.” MenLoveBelieveWellsTodayNationsCommonCareersKnowingMediaTrumpAnd LoveFortuneTrailsGood FortuneHypeMccainGreat Nations Author:Sarah Palin
“There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures.” ArtTwoDifferentUsedCultureNationsGrowthCommonSpecialMediaMassAdultsTasksPressesRadioCinemaAgencyMutualDivisionFormalOutlookComprehensionMass MediaUnescoAdult EducationArt And CultureSpecial One Author:Julian Huxley
“I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.” WorldWantWritingProblemNationsSidesUnitedPiecesTeamMediaPositionEmotionalTvsGoes OnDemandResponseStartingRadioPartnersEducatedAround The WorldOur SocietyCompassionateUnited NationsRapidsEmotional Things Author:Karen Armstrong
“While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.” NationsInterestDecisionIssuesMediaJudgingConstitutionAgendasBehalf Author:Fred W. Friendly
“Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.” MenWorldChildrenCountryDoneChristianAmericaValuesNationsNumbersLeaderMediaSurvivalMen And WomenShadowThirdsIronyAgendasActivistCommunistCheerMainstreamSupporterHomosexualThird WorldMarryingStunningDemographicsRejectingProminentLeftistsMainstream MediaThird World CountriesChristian LeadersNewsworthy Author:Sylvia Thompson
“A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .” IfsNeedsBelieveLongEndsBigsGovernmentHappensEyeRunningNationsInterestMy OwnQualityDemocracySawsMediaHugeApproachNewsHappeningsTransformationProfoundJournalismGiantsPublishingLong RunsBig GovernmentBroadcastersFramers Author:Bill Moyers
“And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole truth and calling us to complain when we don't. Break this know-nothing pact now and you will have taken as mighty a step as you can as an individual to help see to it that we as a nation move together toward a lively, hopeful, confident, and all-embracing future.” KnowsShouldWholeHelpingTogetherMovingIndividualNationsStepsBreakTakenMediaPositionCallingComplainingHopefulLivelyPactWhole Truth Author:Geneva Overholser
“As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.” PeopleYearsMindMovingNationsPowerfulMediaBattleNuclearBombsMost PowerfulMillenniumNuclear Bomb Author:Spike Lee
“From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.” PeopleStatesUsedNationsUnitedUnited StatesMediaPaperGoldSilverMetalsAncestorCoinsMonetaryInceptionGold And SilverMonetary SystemPaper MoneyPrecious Metal Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.” BelieveSaidBookLyingCoursesNationsHalfAcceptingDemocracyMediaPaidTraditionalFlawsEditorsCollapseNegativityThey SaidPublishManuscriptsOmission Author:Chris Hedges
“The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.” ThinkingGivingLittlesNationsBitsGriefSupportShareMediaMajorsLittle BitAssumptionHeels Author:Seymour Hersh
“Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values.” ChristianValuesNationsReligiousMediaMoralityMassChampionBigotryMass MediaAnti ChristianChristian Values Author:Paul McGuire
“In our nation a new and insidious form of religious hatred is developing. I believe there is an attempt to create hatred in the public mind toward orthodox Christians, Jews, and Catholics. It is being implemented by the mass media.” MindBelieveChristianFormI BelieveNationsReligiousMediaMassHatredCatholicJewDevelopingOrthodoxOrthodox ChristianInsidiousMass MediaReligious Hatred Book:Who will rule the future? Source: Who will rule the future?