Jeff Jarvis Quotes

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

Ever since Gutenberg, every dynasty, every political leader, every major religion, has recognized that to control the media is to have a powerful instrument for controlling the values and behavior of a population.

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

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

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

The state must not ... let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called "freedom of the press," ... it must make sure of this instrument of popular education, and place it in the service of the state.

The White House expansion to control the entire corpus of the News was the direct result of television.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

Owning media is power. That’s the way it is.

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.