Mass Media Quotes

The mass media, the culture, everything laying its eggs under my skin. Big Brother filling me with need. Do I really want a big house, a fast car, a thousand beautiful sex partners? Do I really want these things? Or am I trained to want them?

You don't wanna believe what you read in the papers.

Blitz

Detective Sergeant Tom Brant

lie

press

slander

— Have you read the morning papers? They love me!
— Wise up! They'd love you a lot more if you were hanged. You know why? 'Cause they'd sell more papers.

Chicago (2002)

Roxie Hart

Billy Flynn

Jerry, when three sources tell you the same thing word for word, you know they're lying.

— Give everyone a mental age of six, that would make Britain happier. We'd be very easily pleased. Sweets...
— Well, the media are working on that, aren't they?

QI / Quite Interesting

Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks get right to the point.

Manhattan

Isaac Davis

I have certain rules I live by; my first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me… nothing, zero, no, and I don’t take very seriously, the media or the press in this country, who in the case of the Persian Gulf war were nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defence, and who most of the time, most of the time functioned as kind of an unofficial public relations agency for the United States government. So I don’t listen to them, I don’t really believe in my country and I gotta tell you folks, I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol-minded.

George Carlin: Jammin' in New York

George Carlin

propaganda

war

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't.

Gerard Way

Funny Quotes

After you give up television and newspapers, the mornings are the worst part: that first cup of coffee. It’s true, that first hour awake, you want to catch up with the rest of the world. But her new rule is: No radio. No television. No newspaper. Cold turkey.

The schooling system we have in the Western world is crazy – you’re taken away from your parents at your most impressionable age and fed a load of bullshit and lies manipulated to make you think that the way we live in the West is stable and moral, when really it’s neither. You come out of school with a one-track mind based on financial success; you’re encouraged to become enslaved to the banking system. In school, I always felt, ‘Something’s not right here’ and I’m starting to find out what it is. Being outside of the norm gives you freedom of thought and that’s something being suppressed in school and the media. If you have freedom of thought you get labeled as a crazy person or someone strange.

You know, Nate, maybe you're going about this the wrong way. The rallies, the speeches, the politics... That's not how the change is gonna come. It's gonna come from the unknown soldiers, from the leaderless resistance. <...> What's needed is an event. What kind of event? An event that wakes people up. They're sleepwalkers out there. They're blind. Think about this regime. Media brainwashing, secret courts, mass surveillance, waco, Ruby Ridge. Using Katrina and 9/11 to set up "refugee camps," or "detention camps", in other words, concentration camps, because who cares about the rights of a few arabs, niggers and racists, if it makes us safer? Right? That's how it all starts.

Batman. Batman. Can somebody tell me what kind of a world we live in... where a man dressed up as a bat... gets all of my press? This town needs an enema!

Batman

Jack Napier / Joker

Sarcastic Quotes

Try to read the papers instead of sticking under it.

Rambo IV

En-Joo

There happen more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are reported in your newspapers.