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It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise. ↗

— Roger Stone

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