"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."

Media, America, Europe, News, Opinions

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

Susan Sontag, American Author

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

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

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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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."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

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"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."

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."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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

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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."

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

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"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."

"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

"In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out."

"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."

"Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides."

"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."

"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."

"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority."

"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology."

"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."