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When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that’s bad, they use the press. And they’ll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They’ll take a person who’s a victim of the crime, and make it appear he’s the criminal, and they’ll take the criminal and make it appear that he’s the victim of the crime.
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.
It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.
I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.
As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn’t. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
Each time that Donald Trump promises to come forward with something, when you actually get to the point of disclosure it seems as though there’s a lot less that was promised for the press and particularly for the public to understand.
Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
It’s good to overexpose yourself with work. But don’t expose yourself too much with the press.
I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn’t move to the larger presses until they knew what they were getting in for.
We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.
After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here’s how it went. Here’s what I saw. I’ve been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
You’ve got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
I think there’s been an overestimation of how much the press can shape coverage and people’s decisions.
The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.
The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.
As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.
A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.
You have never had fair press in America.
Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?
You’ve got to watch your mind all the time or you’ll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
I don’t try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.