Mark Crispin Miller Quotes

• La manipulación de los medios de comunicación en Estados Unidos es hoy más eficaz que en la Alemania nazi, porque aquí tenemos la pretensión de que obtenemos toda la información que queremos. Esa idea errónea impide que la gente busque siquiera la verdad.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Media, People, Germany

  Attributed to Mark Crispin Miller in Michael A. Kirchubel "Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America" (p. 224), 2009.

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• Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Friendly, Culture, Advertising

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• Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Communication, Thinking, Atmosphere

  Mark Crispin Miller (1988). “Boxed in: The Culture of TV”, p.11, Northwestern University Press

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• Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Pain, Lying, Compassion

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• Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Hands, Perfection, Immoral

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• The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Culture, Pressure, Relentless

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