The Media Quotes
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.
I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?
The Jews run all the banks. Well, we do. The Jews run the media. Well, we do. You know, I mean they're right about all that stuff.
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?
Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.
We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
You need to change your mind from sell sell sell to help help help and if you can do that as a business you will win in social media
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
