{"quotes":[{"text":"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["authenticity","books","cheapness","classics","mass-culture","mass-media","press","translations","writing"],"id":15299,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Not only are we digital immigrants, we are also media dinosaurs. We enjoy thumbing through glossy magazines, and maybe still subscribe to a daily newspaper. We schedule at least one evening per week around a favorite TV program, created by one of the major television or cable networks. We can name at least one local or national news anchor. And scattered around our homes and offices are veritable graveyards of physical media — old tapes, vinyl records, floppy disks, and magazines — that we insist on keeping, even though we'll probably never use them again.","author":"Ian Lamont","tags":["digital-media","digital-natives","innovation","mass-media","media","media"],"id":21598,"author_id":"Ian+Lamont"},{"text":"People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["dark-humor","entertainment","herd-mentality","humor","hype","mainstream-media","mass-media","media","mindlessness","pop-culture","sheep","sheep-mentality","sheeple","television"],"id":45533,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["democracy","mass-media","propaganda","repression","totalitarianism"],"id":67005,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...Who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["mass-media","media","models","real-women","social-perception","women"],"id":84040,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are good at it. No person who did not wish to dominate others would choose to use advertising, or choosing it, succeed in it. So the basic nature of advertising and all technologies created to serve it will be consistent with this purpose, will encourage this behaviour in society, and will tend to push social evolution in this direction.","author":"Jerry Mander","tags":["advertising","control","mass-media","social-influence"],"id":104574,"author_id":"Jerry+Mander"},{"text":"Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined.","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["control","manipulation","mass-influence","mass-media","media","message","persuasion","power","propaganda","subconscious"],"id":124429,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"Most laws only exist if people believe in them. That's why the mass media has to propagate them. If you are wise enough, join the police and ignore unfair laws. Be the friend and helper instead and thereby increase the reputation of the police.","author":"L.H.","tags":["law","laws","love","mass-media","modern-slavery","police","police-reputation","propaganda","slavery"],"id":131618,"author_id":"L.H."},{"text":"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["journalism","mass-media","propaganda","the-press"],"id":170298,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on.","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["art","culture","mass-media","superficiality"],"id":183250,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}