Rush Limbaugh Quotes

The press has, at present, a great influence over public questions; and by far the greater and more influential part of it is engaged on the side of the capitalist.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

Is journalism a profession that serves the public by maintaining high standards, or is it a social construct that should be redesigned to directly serve certain social goods? Some argue that all journalism involves bias, either hidden or revealed. But it is one thing to say that objectivity and fairness are ultimately unreachable. It is another to cease grasping for them. That would be a world of purely private truths, in which the boldest liars and demagogues would thrive.

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

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

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

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

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

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.

The media loves negative spin.

I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

You will not have to make war there only with arms, but also with public opinion

People of a certain political view tend to read material of only that point of view … except to cast contempt on the other points of view.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

In an ideological, polarized political environment, people see the reality that they want to see.

Who wants to hear that he is wrong when he can be told that he is right? …. We are losing the ability to change our mind because of our media.

Useless, a superficial mindless recitation of what we know from the daily press.