Sublime

The inherent imbalances in the American media summarized in Chapter 1 render it less a marketplace of ideas and more a sort of prison store or commissary that provides few and overpriced goods to captive consumers. And the concept of the market that we are aspiring to in our speech laws actually requires a lot of regulation. There are anti-monopoly

What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of “being informed” by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation.

The written word endures, the spoken word

Since news is the newspaper’s backbone, it is obvious that an understanding of what news actually is must be an integral part of the equipment of the public relations counsel. For the public relations counsel must not only supply news—he must create news. This function as the creator of news is even more important than his others.

our languages are our media. Our media are our metaphors. Our metaphors create the content of our culture.

People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They have neither the time nor the inclination to search for facts that are not readily available to them. The expert, therefore, must advise first upon the form of action desirable for his client and secondly must utilize the