There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain
The result has been that an increasingly authoritarian agenda has been sold to the American people by a massive, multi-tentacled media machine that has become, for all intents and purposes, a propaganda organ of the state.
David McGowan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ekpKsKWpk&feature=player_embedded#at=192
The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.
Richard Schickel
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I note the "case in point" happens to be one, schizophrenic person, who is supposed to be representative of us all. There's validity to the idea of the media being a mirror...but, not all mirrors are faithful reflections. Some mirrors are designed to distort. I'll be more inclined to agree with her, when the "influencing machine" (media) is free of advertising. It's hard to deny an illicit subterfuge of control, when the explicit and blatant efforts are given such prominence.
ReplyDeleteHerman Cain for President. ;-)