Media Quotes

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Education was central to reporting.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

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These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see.

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

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

Some say Twitter is overrated.Some love it, others hate it.I guess it depends on what you've got, If you have guts to write a funny plot!

Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them.

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

It's funny

The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance. They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?

Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse personality.

I am not in the entertainment business. I don't give a damn if it was spectacular or not. I want cause and effect.

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

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

You can’t repair character flaws with positive social media posts

[W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media that disproportionately gives a forum to economically driven ideology over sound science.

Censorship exists to protect corruption.

The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society.

If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!

For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts.

let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.

The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.

The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

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Some even “peek through” their computer screens to see themselves on FB as others see them, in order to be sure of who they really are. In effect, they have become self-voyeurs!

What is seen by all on FB becomes what each person also sees in the mirror when he sees himself. The others’ gaze, but also the others’ values, opinions, and judgements become one’s own.

News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people's minds about what was possible or tolerable.

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

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In kindergarten we all stand before a choice - Do we accept the accepted to be accepted or do we stay logical and keep thinking?

The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Media: the tongue of a nation!

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.

A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.