"There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts."

(Pope John Paul II)

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."

(A.J. Liebling)
(1904 – 1963,  American journalist)

"There's lots of stuff none of us have ever seen before. That's good in some ways, but limiting in other ways."

(Mark Zuckerberg)

"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society."

(Walter Lippman)
(1889 - 1974, American intellectual, reporter, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner)

"...because of forced globalization, there’s a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups."

(Eduardo Galeano)
(Journalist, novelist from Uruguay)

"The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy."

(Benjamin Disraeli)

"It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.”

(John Kerry)

"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."

(Arianna Huffington)

"Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do."

(Amy Goodman)
(American progressive broadcast journalist)

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."

(Noam Chomsky)

"Advertising is legalized lying."

(H.G.Wells)

(1866-1946, British-born American Author)

"It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me."

(Mark Zuckerberg)