All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan
Whoever controls the media – the images – controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg
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
Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W H Auden
The media no longer ask those who know something … to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it. Serge Daney
The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals. Mason Cooley
The media’s power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. Corazon Aquino
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. Ed Muskie
The media are far more powerful than the President in creating public awareness and shaping public opinion, for the simple reason that the media always have the last word. Richard Nixon
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. Tom Stoppard