L. Neil Smith Media Quotations

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.