Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.