N. Bhaskara Rao Quotes

The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.

Every newspaper lives by appealing to a particular public. It can only go ahead of its times if it carries its public with it. Success in journalism depends on understanding the public.

The errors in media polling rarely benefit a Republican.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

It's the media who love statistics.

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

I don't think about the media.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.

The public's not stupid.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

I've learned a long time ago not to take polls too seriously.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

Newspapers at that time did not necessarily try to flatter those in power. Rather, they wrote to please readers. I may sound evasive. but there certainly existed some kind of mechanism that aggravated the situation through subtle interactions between newspapers and the public. Readers were waiting for articles reporting the exploits of the victorious Imperial Forces, Newspapers indulged themselves in a competition to appear more patriotic and to see who could print the most articles urging and exalting victory. Newspaper companies cooperated through the dispatch of entertainers, calls for patriotic songs, campaigns for contributions to build more airplanes, and various other ways. The heavy responsibility that the newspapers bear is second only to that of the government.