Aaron McGruder Quotes

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

... infiltrate and neutralize the mainstream American media.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

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 can act like a barrier. We often are communicating with people through the media and not via the media.

The Washington press corps is all too often the Praetorian Guard of the left.

With the instrument of radio you can make public opinion. Perhaps even conquer a country.

Printing made us all readers. Xeroxing made us all publishers. Television made us all viewers. Digitization makes us all broadcasters.

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

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

In this Day the secrets of the earth are laid bare before the eyes of men. The pages of swiftly-appearing newspapers are indeed the mirror of the world. They reflect the deeds and the pursuits of diverse peoples and kindreds. They both reflect them and make them known. They are a mirror endowed with hearing, sight and speech. This is an amazing and potent phenomenon. However, it behooveth the writers thereof to be purged from the promptings of evil passions and desires and to be attired with the raiment of justice and equity. They should enquire into situations as much as possible and ascertain the facts, then set them down in writing.

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

Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras....

Americans no longer gather in the streets to hear candidates; television is the new focal point of politics.

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

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

I think many of the mainstream media players are liberal Democrats. They intend to vote for Hillary [Clinton]. They believed Donald [Trump] was the easiest candidate for Hillary to beat.

Democrats, the mainstream media, Hollywood elites are so out of touch when it comes to keeping you, the American people, safe from radical Islamic terrorism, and they are willing to gamble with your life.

You have got to convince people, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, is never going to support us, and if you continue to define political success as the media supporting us and not supporting a Democrat, you're never gonna be happy, because that's never going to happen. And if that remains your measure of success, then you're gonna get fooled each and every time.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.