• Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.8 · 21 votes · 169 reads

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• So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it?

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 153 reads

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• Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 115 reads

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• Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 199 reads

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• Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 99 reads

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• The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  5.0 · 12 votes · 171 reads

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• The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 145 reads

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• The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters - there is

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.3 · 7 votes · 24 reads

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• The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 161 reads

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• The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 92 reads

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• The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 21 reads

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• The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 166 reads

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• The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 55 reads

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• The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.8 · 24 votes · 51 reads

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• The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 132 reads

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• The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 177 reads

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• The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.8 · 62 votes · 175 reads

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• The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.9 · 29 votes · 39 reads

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 35 reads

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• The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 31 reads

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• The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 74 reads

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• The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.9 · 40 votes · 110 reads

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• The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 14 reads

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• The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 158 reads

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• The real news is bad news.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 182 reads

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• The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public e

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 147 reads

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• The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 183 reads

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• The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and e

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.6 · 33 votes · 146 reads

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• There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 150 reads

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• There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do th

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 151 reads

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• There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 38 reads

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• There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 30 votes · 6 reads

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• This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.3 · 19 votes · 75 reads

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  ArchitectAmerican1867 · 19th century

  3.2 · 63 votes · 154 reads

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• We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 160 reads

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• We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 93 reads

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• Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.0 · 17 votes · 79 reads

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• What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 39 reads

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• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 185 reads

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• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.2 · 16 votes · 24 reads

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• When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.6 · 57 votes · 163 reads

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• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of pol

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 97 reads

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