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 * __Quote Me!__**

Below is a list of thought-provoking quotes about aspects of the media you will study. Try to work out what each person was saying and maybe even use some to emphasise points you make in your essays:

"[|The medium is the message.]” - Marshall McLuhan

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media." - Noam Chomsky

“[|Don't hate the **media**, become the **media**]” - Jello Biafra

“[|The **media** are only as liberal as the conservative businesses that own them]” - unknown

"[|The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people]” - Irving Thalberg

"[|Whoever controls the **media**, controls the mind]” - Jim Morrison

"They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers." ~James G. Watt, quoted in //Newsweek//, 8 March 1982

[|Christina [Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the **media** makes up.]]” - Britney Spears

"[|Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of **media** content in the United States today.]” - C.Edwin Baker

"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see." - Roland Barthes

“[|I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.]” - David Ogilvy

"...propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state - Noam Chomsky

"[|Looking at yourself through the **media** is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.]” - Edmund S Muskie

“[|Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.]” - Ernie Kovacs

“[|The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its **media** all objectivity - much less dissent.]” - Gore Vidal

"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."- Roland Barthes

“[|Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a **media** planner'?]” - Jef I. Richards

“[|Internet advertising will not replace traditional **media**, it will compliment them.]” - Jef I. Richards

"[|If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new **media**, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.]” - Jacques Chirac

[|Ought we not to ask the **media** to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.]” - Margaret Thatcher

"...the point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything [...] that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is gonna be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about". - Noam Chomsky

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive." ~G.K. Chesterton "We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder". ~//The Houghton Line//, November 1965

"Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them." ~//Horizon//, "Electronic Frontier"

"I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures". ~Earl Warren, quoted in //Sports Illustrated//, 22 July 1968

"[|The **media**'s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.]” - Malcolm X

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." ~Ben Hecht

"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring." ~Warren Chappell

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."" ~Lyndon B. Johnson

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." ~Thomas Jefferson

"If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event... what kind of film would you use?" ~Author Unknown

"Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space." ~Rebecca West

"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." ~Henry Fielding

"Journalism is literature in a hurry." ~Matthew Arnold

"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. " ~Thomas Carlyle, //Heroes and Hero-Worship//

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nathaniel Macon

"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were." ~David Brinkley

"Harmony seldom makes a headline." ~Silas Bent

"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." ~Arthur Miller

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers." ~Wendell Phillips

"The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow." ~Christopher Morley, //Kitty Foyle//

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." ~Norman Mailer

"Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation." ~George Bernard Shaw, 1931

"You can crush a man with journalism." ~William Randolph Hearst

"Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." ~Elbert Hubbard

"In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has." ~Mark Twain

"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets." ~Napoleon

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please." ~Mark Twain

"Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil." ~Jean de la Fontaine

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." ~Malcolm X

"All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel." ~Ira Berkow

"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news." ~Charles Anderson Dana

"The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you." ~C.E.M. Joad

"Journalism is organized gossip." ~Edward Egglestone

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once." ~Cyril Connolly

"Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one." ~Art Buchwald, 1969

"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas Jefferson

"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness." ~Eric Sevareid, "The Press and the People," television program, 1959

"Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. " ~Erwin Knoll

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." ~Oscar Wilde, //The Soul of Man Under Socialism//, 1891

"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast." ~William Tecumseh Sherman

"Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to." ~Helen Swaffer

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." ~Gandhi