Media Manipulation Quotes:

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

- Malcolm X

source: "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

topic: Powerful, Media, Mind, Mass Media, Media Bias

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

- Mark Crispin Miller

source: Attributed to Mark Crispin Miller in Michael A. Kirchubel "Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America" (p. 224), 2009.

topic: Media, People, Want, Media Control, Media Manipulation

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

- Edward Bernays

source: Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

topic: Country, Intelligent, Government, Mass Media, Media Control

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

- Hermann Goring

source: Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

topic: Country, War, People, Media Manipulation, Media Propaganda

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.400, Penguin

topic: Reading, Citizens, Looks, Media Manipulation, Reading Newspapers

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

- William Safire

topic: Media, Joy, Manipulation, Media Manipulation

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

- Julian Assange

topic: Memories, War, Ignorance, Media Manipulation, Invading Iraq

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

- Hermann Goring

source: Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

topic: Country, Peace, War, Media Manipulation, Media Propaganda

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

- Bernardine Dohrn

topic: Passion, Differences, Doctors, Sound Bites, Media Manipulation

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

- Hermann Goring

topic: Country, War, Simple, Media Manipulation, Media Propaganda

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.

- Andy Grundberg

topic: Media, Worry, Important, Media Manipulation