The Media Quotes

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

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

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.

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

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

The cost of independence has dropped.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

Social media is your platform to build a unique fan base while you express yourself exactly how you see yourself. Build wisely.

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

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

Social Media brands faster than any other existing Marketing plan and for much cheaper!

All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media.

How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

If I remembered when people said mean things about me, I would never speak to the media again.

New York is a different breed than any other city there is. Media can be very hard on you at times, but [Patrick Ewing] did handle it like a man. He was able to prosper in that whole atmosphere.

During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die.

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

Watching Fox, that's like watching the Cartoon Network. Fox is nuts.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.

Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.

Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

To me, the media in New York and LA have always missed the essence of this country.

Never build your content ship on rented land.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.