Media Quotes

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes hav...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'offic...

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and ...

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidd...

The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, impr...

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they...

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ...

At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media ...

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afra...

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest...

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if y...

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was p...

If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then ...

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the p...

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social medi...

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and t...

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is de...

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absen...

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of t...

I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the fa...

By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you a...

The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this n...

The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise ...

Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rat...

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by t...

It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle a...

All media work us over completely.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing af...

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit...

The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more...

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard...

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on ...

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is anti...

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them...

You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the...

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not id...

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (...

Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor....

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problem...

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to clo...

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morn...

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge i...

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau kn...

You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all t...

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined ...

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable op...

A propaganda model has a certain initial plausibility on guided free-market assumptions that are not...

In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if ...

Those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belo...

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissi...

[W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media th...

The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole...

We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by b...

Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments...

The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the event...

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that...

You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to...

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, b...

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts i...

A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the...

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Radio was theater of the mind.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It...

Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in...

Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the ...

Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are para...

...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out...

You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go ...

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDAC...

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...

People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without ...

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered f...

I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon versio...

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

Today, reports of the day’s events are conveyed to the viewing public by way of alternate universes,...

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fight...

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being p...

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be mo...

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufactu...

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically ...

Nothing is easier than to find some individuals—in any group—who share a given writer’s opinion, and...

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communica...

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence ...