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The New American - Bread and Circuses - February 10, 2003: "The mandarins of mass entertainment have a revolutionary agenda, and their methods aren't hard to understand. They intend to destroy traditional Western culture, religion, and morals by using the power of the modern entertainment media. They know, and have known for decades, that sensory images are far more effective than words for mass manipulation because they have the power to elicit an involuntary response. Images force themselves on our minds whether we like it or not; it is impossible to see a violent image or an erotic picture and not react, however fleetingly. Thus, when we hear racy songs, see suggestive billboards and TV ads, or watch television shows with morally subversive themes and bawdy content, we are unavoidably being conditioned to tolerate and, eventually, embrace vice, that 'monster of so fearful mien, as to be feared needs but to be seen' that Alexander Pope warned of.

With its base enticements, our modern mass entertainment media are every would-be revolutionary's fondest dream. In the first place, modern electronic media conveniently encourage us to communicate, and to interpret ideas, in terms of sensory images rather than in words. As a result, popular opinion has confused the rapid-fire, media-produced images --which permeate our lives, constantly seeking to arouse us -- with more traditional modes of communication, like speech. This is why inane claims seeking to elevate pornographic pictures and obscene song lyrics to the level of First Amendment-protected 'free speech' are so widely accepted."