“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.” ThinkingStatesLastsThreeHoursUnitedUnited StatesSawsWeekMinutesMediaAverageRadioVarietySurveysElectronic Media Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.” StatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesMediaMilitaryIndependentIndependencePressesBrilliantSeparationBranchesExecutivesCiviliansJudicialCentral BanksSeparation Of PowersSystems Of GovernmentJudicial BranchIndependent Media Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensImportantStatesReasonSeemsPoliticsUnitedLeaderOpinionMillionsUnited StatesMediaPolicyProveMouthsImportancePaidAffairAthleteIgnorantTreatedRationalDeclineMistakenEntertainersRational ThinkingProfessional AthleteForeign AffairsIdolizedDomestic Policy Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New York Times, which has thousands of reporters constantly producing enormous front-page stories about bauxite...The [New York] Post would write about bauxite only if famous celebrites were arrested for snorting it in an exclusive Manhattan nightclub.” IfsWritingStatesStoriesUnitedUnited StatesMediaFrontsNew YorkPagesBoringNewspapersEnormousPostsReportersExclusiveArrestedManhattanNew York TimesNightclubs Author:Dave Barry
“When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.” WantBelieveStatesAmericaUnitedOpinionUnited StatesMediaPleaseMassGuidesCorporateCorporate America Author:Gore Vidal
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States.” StatesAmericaCultureAbilityWhiteUnitedRaceEducationUnited StatesMediaSourceCitizensRacismRewardsEducationalLoyaltyPunishmentPrimePledgeOathEducational SystemReward And Punishment Author:Ishmael Reed
“The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.” ThinkingWayStatesChristianValuesReligiousUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesShareMediaBiblicalWay Of Thinking Author:Francis Schaeffer
“Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).” StatesAmericaUsedFunUnitedUnited StatesMediaBecomingMassIntellectualMental HealthOwnersEstablishmentTrustedUnited States Of AmericaEvidentForeignersMass MediaRespectabilityPersonnelMinionsPoking Fun Author:Kerry Thornley
“If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.” IfsStatesRealityWould BeUnitedBehindsUnited StatesMediaIndustryBarsCorporateDeliberateDistortion Author:Cynthia McKinney
“In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.” StatesLevelsUnitedPartyPayUnited StatesMediaCommunicationRepublicanDemocraticCorporateGiantsDemocratic Party Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“There's something that scares me. It's the way media in the United States presents the rest of the world. I feel like people in America are getting a completely different picture of what's going on in other countries than what is reality.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsDifferentCountryStatesRealityAmericaUnitedUnited StatesMediaScareOther Countries Author:Rula Jebreal
“I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.” ThinkingStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesMediaTvsRadioOppositionPrintVenezuelaPrint Media Author:Medea Benjamin
“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