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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