Media Influence Quotes

"In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait." "Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in GQ magazine." "I'm very savvy about celebrities and mostly what effects the celebrity culture has on people." "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."