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"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
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"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment."
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
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"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."
"The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation."
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"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
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