Media Quotes

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...

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern th...

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if y...

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...

I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging ...

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds o...

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy mo...

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you ...

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect c...

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which i...

We must sober up and admit that too many of the Republicans and the Democrats have played us, lied t...

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online ...

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissectin...

There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media ou...

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be...

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us th...

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as ...

I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legisla...

A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effecti...

But the old traditions of sectarian misdirection still in spite of a certain advance in technical ef...

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless...

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

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues ...

Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, ar...

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the...

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of gover...

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward i...

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of ...

Nowadays, it is true, we have mass media and expert propaganda to spread suspicion and fear. But the...

The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more...

The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all...

The propagandist naturally cannot reveal the true intentions of the principal for whom he acts... Th...

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

As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.