Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-07-02 Jul 1, 2016Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.~ W. Lance BennettNobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do...~ Italo CalvinoHistorians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.~ Reuven Brenner Jun 30, 2016The modern press itself is a new phenomenon. Its typical unit is the great agency of mass communication. These agencies can facilitate thought and discussion. They can stifle it…. They can play up or down the news and its significance, foster and feed emotions, create complacent fictions and blind spots, misuse the great words and uphold empty slogans.~ Commission On Freedom Of The PressA newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.~ Ernest BevinWe do nothing controversial. We're not in the investigative business. Our only concern is giving editorial support for our ad projects.~ Houston Chronicle Jun 29, 2016We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools; and by open, hearty behavior, show condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.~ Adam WeishauptThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.~ Herbert SpencerThe fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices -- paid by others.~ Thomas Sowell Jun 28, 2016Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.~ Sinclair LewisNo one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.~ Alan BullockThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.~ Ayn Rand Jun 27, 2016People everywhere confuse, What they read in newspapers with news.~ A. J. LieblingOur job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.~ Richard SalantThe man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print