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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum -- even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
-- Noam Chomsky, The Common Good,
"Long before the Soviet Union broke up, a group of Russian writers touring the United States were astonished to find, after reading the newspapers and watching television, that almost all the opinions on all the vital issues were the same. "In our country," said one of them, "to get that result we have a dictatorship. We imprison people. We tear out their fingernails. Here you have none of that. How do you do it? What's the secret?"
-- John Pilger,
"The inappropriate fit between the country's major media and the country's political system has starved voters of relvant information, leaving them at the mercy of paid political propaganda that is close to meaningless and often worse. It has eroded the central requirement of a democracy that those who are governed give not only their consent but their informed consent."
-- Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly,
"It's done differently in El Salvador. There they send in the death squads. Here what they do is try to hook you on sitcoms. It's true that both are techniques of control, but they are rather different techniques."
-- Naom Chomsky
"News is what someone, somewhere is trying to suppress, the rest is just advertising"
-- Lord Northcliffe, British Press Baron
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers."
--Thomas Pynchon,