Joseph Goebbels Quotes

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

There has been a reflex throughout the history of modern news: When the country goes to war, so do the major news organizations. They consider it ‘patriotic.’ But it is dubious patriotism that abandons citizens in unnecessary ignorance of critical information…The before-and-after picture of U.S. officialdom presents a stark lesson of the tragedies of war and propaganda repeated in the major media.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

The media never covers all the evil wars that's promoted.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

A good war televises well; a bad war televises poorly.

Every war has seen unscrupulous reporters who are willing to hurt the national effort, even betray secrets, for the sake of a story…but it did no good to treat the press as enemies.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

Not every item of news should be published: rather those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

Reporters were all part of the war effort. They went along with it, and not only that, they abetted it.…It is in the things not mentioned that the untruth lies.…They wrote only a part of the war

Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.