"It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media."

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"It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media."

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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

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Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence."

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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

"Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind."

"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."

"The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence."

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"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."

"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."

"War is an abstraction."

"The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden."

"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."

"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."