I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

The most important service rendered by the press is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

One of the things the news media does very well is to make a minority look like a majority.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to he better.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

The medium is the message.