Media Quotes

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered f...

I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon versio...

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

Today, reports of the day’s events are conveyed to the viewing public by way of alternate universes,...

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fight...

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being p...

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be mo...

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufactu...

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically ...

Nothing is easier than to find some individuals—in any group—who share a given writer’s opinion, and...

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communica...

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence ...

I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes...

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed li...

I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances t...

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communica...

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings...

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the America...

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than wh...

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must chec...

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of...

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw peop...

The media—stenographers to power.

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in the medi...

Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and butt...

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war...

I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I ...

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their percep...

They sit beside each other on one of the sofas, Warwick leaning forward with his elbows on his knees...

The English-language press in India supports the project of corporate globalization fully. It has no...

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—a...

[Howard Roark] was asked for a statement, and he received a group of reporters in his office. He spo...

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore e...

We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and tr...

A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we...

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safet...

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be f...

The corporate media spends a lot of time covering the lifestyles of the rich and the famous, but not...

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, ove...

What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain ex...

In every age a general misdirection of what may be called sexual "taste"... [is] produce[d by the de...

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States...

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made...

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the medi...

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not...

On the day Princess Diana died, a group of students had gathered before a lecture, talking about wha...

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the...

When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.

There is a huge trapdoor waiting to open under anyone who is critical of so-called 'popular culture'...

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there b...

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where the...

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every com...

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violen...

The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of n...

Give me lust, baby.Flash.Give me malice.Flash.Give me detached existentialist ennui.Flash.Give me ra...

For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mour...

[I]n 1919, 1920 and 1921, the whole Israelite press stormed the Romanian state unleashing everywhere...

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’r...

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality ...

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news p...

U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation...

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionate...

AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony wher...

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inv...

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the med...

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of Americ...

Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way.

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to k...

Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

It is not true that the world hates America. It is the world’s Left that hates America. However, bec...

Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democrati...

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles an...

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't...

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumpti...

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be...

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable...

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect...

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media p...

In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us ...

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reforme...

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street h...

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...