“You newspapermen are crazy for definitions and neat schemes. You're impossibly dogmatic.”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org
“People think of fake news as politically motivated, and a lot of it is, but even more of it is economically motivated.”— Sheryl Sandberg, dailymail.co.uk
“As paradoxical as it sounds, negative coverage helps Trump because it bonds him to people who also feel disrespected by the denizens of the mainstream press.”— Howard Kurtz, hollywoodreporter.com
“This is the age of spin. The age where nobody knows what the fuck they’re even looking at.”— Dave Chappelle, scrapsfromtheloft.com
““You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not competent to think. Therefore it’s important…”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“There are, by one count, 20,000 more public relations agents working to doctor the news today than there are journalists writing it.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“Rhodes readily admitted to me that the work he does is a potentially dangerous distortion of democracy, but he also felt that it had become a necessary evil, caused by the fracturing of the 20th-century mass audience and the decline of the American press. He expressed a deep personal hopelessness ab…”— David Samuels, nytimes.com
“Since the media always make you out to say the opposite of what you say, you should have the courage always to say that opposite of what you think.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“No matter how small the percentage of violent deaths may be, in absolute numbers there will always be enough of them to fill the evening news, so people's impressions of violence will be disconnected from the actual proportions.”— Steven Pinker, amazon.com
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze, but it's a small sideshow indeed, and hardly necessary to keep things in line. So few want…”— Ray Bradbury, Professor Faber, amazon.com
“The lowbrow way of forgetting oneself is to get drunk, to be diverted with entertainments, or to exploit such natural means of self-transcendence as sexual intercourse. The highbrow way is to throw oneself into the pursuit of the arts, of social service, or of religious mysticism. These measures are…”— Alan W Watts, amazon.com