Angelica Ross Quotes

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.

People see whatever the media first reports.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

The right can distort anything it wants.

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.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.