Quoty: quotes tagged with 'news'

"What gets you on the news is controversy. The ...

"What gets you on the news is controversy. The easiest way to get 15 minutes on the news, or your 15 minutes of fame, is to be rude."

Author: Barack Obama, Source: http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,41728494001_1925...
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Mainstream media are like drive-by shooters. Th...

Mainstream media are like drive-by shooters. They pull up to a congested area, and they spray a hail of bullets into the crowd. It causes mass hysteria and confusion, mistakes, misinterpretation; sometimes people or their careers die after a Drive-By Media hit. The mainstream media then smirks and laughs, and ride away in their convertible, unnoticed in the excitement heading on down the road to the next drive-by.
Author: Rush Limbaugh, Source: unknown
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Propaganda becomes vicious and reprehensive onl...

Propaganda becomes vicious and reprehensive only when its authors consciously and deliberately disseminate what they know to be lies, or when they aim at effects which they know to be prejudicial to the common good.
Author: Edward Bernays, Source: Propaganda, p. 50
Saved by cboyack in truth information news propaganda lie deception

Any society, whether it be social, religious or...

Any society, whether it be social, religious or political, which is possessed of certain beliefs, and sets out to make them known, either by the spoken or written words, is practicing propaganda.
Author: Edward Bernays, Source: Propaganda, p. 49
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In a world under the influence of propaganda ex...

In a world under the influence of propaganda experts, how does a costly truth get out into the world as truth?
Author: Mark Crispin Miller, Source: Propaganda, p. 25
Saved by cboyack in truth news propaganda lie fact deception

In any struggle, it is essential to know what y...

In any struggle, it is essential to know what you are fighting for and what you are fighting against. If knowledge of the former is lacking, the will to win will be absent. If knowledge of the latter is absent, confusion and uncertainty will result.
Author: J. Edgar Hoover, Source: Unknown
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It is nonsense to say there is not enough time ...

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. Time given to thought is the greatest time-saver of all.
Author: Norman Cousins, Source: Unknown
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Only the crassest ignoramus can still hold to t...

Only the crassest ignoramus can still hold to the old-fashioned notion that seeing is believing. That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve.
Author: Ayn Rand, Source: Atlas Shrugged, p. 317
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Our job is to give people not what they want, b...

Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
Author: Richard Salant, Source: Unknown
Saved by cboyack in media news propaganda censorship

There is no such thing in America as an indepen...

There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns.
You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to writes (sic) his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with�others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things�and any of you who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread.
You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an �Independent Press.�
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
Author: John Swinton, Source: 1880 at a banquet in his honor
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a ...

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Author: Thomas Jefferson, Source: Letter to John Norvell, June 11, 1807
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The open and covert management of the news in t...

The open and covert management of the news in this country is frightening in its implications. One high government official has made the appalling statement to the effect that it is all right for the government to lie to the people if it serves the government�s purpose to lie. Certainly lies can take place by omission as well as commission.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 681
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Such as it is, the press has become the greates...

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask: by whom has it been elected, and to whom is it responsible?
Author: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Source: Unknown
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It is difficult for them to see whose paycheck ...

It is difficult for them to see whose paycheck depends on them not seeing.
Author: Upton Sinclair, Source: Unknown
Saved by cboyack in media news censorship

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed i...

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything.
Author: George Orwell, Source: 1984, p. 156
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