“[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus.” DoeWarStatesFactsHelpingHouseWhiteEffortMessagesHollywoodUltimateFunctionAimMeetingsSeriesTerrorismProofExecutivesWhite HouseGlobesSeniorIdeologicalNovemberAdviser Book:Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates Source: Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
“The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.” NeedsMessagesNewsMeetings Author:Matt Chandler
“I think there's a whole book being written about it in the UK. I don't know if you can get it here. It's about all the hidden messages and meetings in this and the fact that it is about women and the fact that this cave is full of blood and all this kind of stuff. And when I was making it, I didn't make it with that specifically in mind, but I always had it in the back of mind and I thought, 'Let's just throw it in there and see what people make of it.' And people seem to be making quite a lot of it. So I don't want to spell it out or say this, that or the other.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantMindKindBookWholeFactsSeemsStuffWrittenBloodMessagesMeetingsSpellsCavesHidden Messages Author:Neil Marshall
“Just come to Brussels after a Council meeting. Do you know what happens? Every head of government holds his or her own press conference. They all say the same thing, in 24 languages: I was able to push through my agenda. And if the result is anything other than what they desired, the message is: Brussels is to blame. It has been this way for over 20 years. These messages stick with people, and that's deadly for Europe.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayYearsHas BeensGovernmentHappensAbleLanguageResultsMessagesEuropeBlamePressesSticksMeetingsAgendasDo You KnowConferencesCouncilPress ConferencesBrussels Author:Martin Schulz
“I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.” IfsGivingShouldSaidAnswersPartyMajorsMessagesAskingMeetingsShoesConservativeMinistersPrimeSensiblePrime MinisterConferencesFringeOctoberConservative Party Author:David Trimble
“Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.” HumansImportantValuesMessagesHarmonyImportant ThingsMeetingsHuman Values Author:Dalai Lama