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The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.
Henry Giroux
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Henry Giroux
American
Critic
Born:
Sep 18
,
1943
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
Health
Food
Entertainment
Unhappy
Will
Men
Power
Live
Satisfied
Everything
Remain
Demon
Waits
Place
Them
Necessity
Desire
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot
Time
Entertainment
People
Lonesome
Joke
Medium
Television
Remain
Permits
Same
Listen
Same Time
Which
Millions
Millions Of People
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
Gary Ackerman
News
Game
Entertainment
People
Confused
First
Think
Changed
Broadcast
Project
Philosophies
Television
No Difference
About
Give
Instead
Journalism
Between
Journalists
Know
First Thing
Stirring
Up
Get
The First Thing
Just
Hockey
Difference
Themselves
Who
Media
Now
Thing
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan
Education
Entertainment
First
Distinction
Tries
About
Between
Know
Make
First Thing
The First Thing
Anyone
Either
Who
Thing
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
Art
Food
Entertainment
Consumed
Mass
New
Mass Media
Like
Replaced
Offers
Intended
Forgotten
Dish
Which
Popular
Media
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
James Patterson
Life
Work
Home
Tired
Achievement
Entertainment
People
Life Is Hard
Half
Reading
Sense
Spend
Some
Give
Wrong
Come
Hour
Lot
Trying
Want
Them
Gonna
Really
Hard
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
Jerry Brown
Entertainment
Control
Politicians
Thinking
Corporations
Destroying
Outburst
Laying
Division
Consumption
Pattern
Racial
Planet
Multinational
Media
Foundation
Violent
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney
Entertainment
People
World
Medium
Everywhere
Pleasure
Telling
Visual
Animation
Offers
Information
Story
Which
Ages
Bring
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
A. A. Milne
Entertainment
Welcome
Natural
Gift
Envy
Laughter
Clever
Setting
Those
Tribute
Must
Some
Powers
Greater
Limited
Arranging
Beds
Lot
Which
Anywhere
Us
Much
View
Whose
Applause
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Marilyn Manson
Entertainment
Our
Entertaining
Adult
Children
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