Determining the News

“A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts… And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.”  -Walter Cronkite
 

Controlling the Public

“Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”  -Edward Bernays, consultant to CBS, GE, Proctor and Gamble
 

Loving Our Oppressors

"The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal... If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."  -Malcolm X, 1964
 

No Questions

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.”  -Ray Bradbury, 1953, from “Fahrenheit 451”
 

Using the News to Deceive

 

 "With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution."  -Vice President Henry A. Wallace, 1944