Modern Media Quotes

“All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libertarians to expand it.”
― Adam Gopnik

“I remember. A gunship’s crew laughing before mowing down reporters and civilians - in short bursts.

A truck crossing a shadowy bridge, seconds before it explodes along with those inside the pressroom, as the general declares the driver “the luckiest man in Bagdad.”

Our military - using attack helicopters and night scopes – to spray bullets at fleeing soldiers, like roaches running from a giant can of Raid. The pressroom laughs again. It’s not funny and there lies the rub.”
― Gary J. Floyd, Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020