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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"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."

"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."

"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."

"When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste."It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive"."
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"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."
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