Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal.
For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media.
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Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals
Tags: media corruption television control
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
Edward R. MurrowOur major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. MurrowPeople say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Edward R. MurrowTags: media news conversation
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
Edward R. MurrowTags: humor media news television popular-culture
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
Edward R. MurrowTags: entertainment media news television show-business
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Edward R. MurrowTags: politics media news government
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Warren EllisTags: thinking media television responsibility influence representations
The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.
James MadisonTags: science intelligence liberty education knowledge freedom media
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