„The mass media are class media.“

— Michael Parenti
„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
„The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.“
— Malcolm X
„Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?“
— Chuck Palahniuk