It is not
at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public
opinion influences the media.
-- Bruce Jackson
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What
is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what
we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and
today.
-- Bianca Jagger
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Since
an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate
media are more crucial today than ever before
-- Dahr
Jamail
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government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever
will.
~ Thomas Jefferson
“The press is
the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational,
moral and social being”
~ Thomas
Jefferson *
Our
liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without
being lost.
~ Thomas
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"If
the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means
must be found -- including recourse to opportune legislative measures -- to make
possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility
must be nurtured."
-- Pope John Paul II
There
cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue,
becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become
a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples,
a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts."
-- Pope
John Paul II
It’s
hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation
to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.”-- John Kerry
“People shouldn't expect the
mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”
-- Ted Koppel
Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United
States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.
-- Paul
Krugman
People
everywhere confuse
What they read in newspapers with news.
-- A.J. Liebling
"A
free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ...
A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society."
-- Walter
Lippman
