Media Quotes

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from.

But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

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.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

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

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.