The Media Quotes

Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.

News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.

The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

When this is over, the media will lose interest [in the relationship]. There’ll be nothing to say. It won’t fit into a headline anymore. It won’t fit into a template.

There's sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That's where the money is.

I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.

In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.

But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.

Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.

No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

Well, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little evidence of liberal bias in the media.

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

In America , the media lives in a vacuum where they are able to not just criticize; they're able to destroy.

This WikiLeaks document dump is showing - it's demonstrating, it is illustrating - that there is no boundary between the media and the Democrat Party, that it's one and the same.

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.

One of the things that drives Trump's popularity is that he sticks it to these people in the media. And people love seeing that.

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

In America, we have a media that lives in its own universe.

I'll bet you half of my problems with liberals in the media is I live in Literalville. I say what I mean. That's politically incorrect. Most people don't say what they mean.

The media did not make Donald Trump, and they can't destroy him.

Hillary Clinton represented "America is over" to the people that voted, and they're never gonna understand this, the people in the media in Washington, in the establishment.

The media can't take Trump out, and that scares the heck out of everybody, particularly in the Republican side.

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

Essentially, there is no media, folks. There just isn't any media in the sense that there are reporters out there uncovering things you and I don't know and telling us what they are.

That's why we began calling it the daily soap opera, or it's just the place on radio and TV where Democrat Party agenda is advanced. But it isn't media.

The media is news gatherers. Why in the world are the media a factor?

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.