#news

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#fox-news #media #politics #press #propaganda

The moon belongs to everyone, The best things in life are free, The stars belong to everyone, They gleam there for you and me. ↗

— B.G. DeSylva

#music

Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the periodical press in this country. And as they live and rule only by their servility, and appealing to the worst, and not the better nature of man, the people who read them are in the condition of the dog that returns to his vomit. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#newspapers #nature

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists.... ↗

— Tom Rachman

#journalists #newspapers #journalist

Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#advertising #news #propaganda #television #tv

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news. ↗

— Joel Siegel

#forget #good #good news #i #news

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#exercise #i #newspaper #rather #read

I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight, you may think something is simple, but it may conceal a great deal. However, facing a very complex thing, you should find out its essence. -Jin Yongquan ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#crucial role #decisions #educated #gatekeepers #helping

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#american #because #certainly #cnn #crazy