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Letter "M" » mass media
«Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
| Keywords:
aims, comic, comic strip, Comic strips, commercial, common denominator, cultural, denominator, denominators, incidence, machines, mannerism, mannerisms, mass media, movie set, opera, Pre, pulp, scheduled, scheme, soap, soap opera, soap operas, urban
«The mass media are the wholesalers; the peer-groups, the retailers of the communications industry»
«The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.»
«The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony»
Author: Paul Goodman
| About:
America and Americans,
Society
| Keywords:
American System, electorate, interlocking, mass media, misled, monopolies, notoriously, phony, semi, The Organization, unenlightened, venal
«People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.»
Author: Ted Koppel
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, investigative, mass media, media
«All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.»
Author: William Bernbach
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, high level, high society, lift, Mass, mass media, media, onto, professionally, shaper, shapers
«The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control / ''indoctrination',' we might say / exercised through the mass media.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| Keywords:
control system, exercised, ideological, indoctrination, industrial, mass media, rigidity, the system, unusual
«A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
academe, American culture, American Life, fantasies, gap, humanities, impact, leftist, mass media, professors, public policy, The Gap
«What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
consumed, dish, entertainment, intended, mass media, media, new media, offers, Popular entertainment, replaced
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