Frederic Raphael Quotes

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

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.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

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.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

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

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.