Quotes on Media

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

Author: Abu Bashir

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Author: John Berger

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Author: Jimmy Breslin

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

Author: David Brock

Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?

Author: Tony Brown

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

Author: Laura Bush

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Author: Iris Chang

In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China.

Author: Jung Chang

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

Author: Chevy Chase

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Author: Noam Chomsky

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Author: Joe Clark

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Author: Stanley Crouch

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

Author: Glenn Danzig

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

Author: Betty Dodson

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Author: Jacques Ellul

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Author: Jim Fowler

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

Author: Jerry Garcia

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.

Author: Newt Gingrich

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

Author: Todd Gitlin

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

Author: Justin Guarini

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Author: Bruce Jackson

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

Author: Wanda Jackson

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

Author: Bianca Jagger

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.

Author: Stan Jones

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

Author: Bill Joy

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

Author: Bill Keller

For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on.

Author: Craig Kelly

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

Author: Shahrukh Khan

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

Author: Kerry King

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

Author: Nicholas Kristof

As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.

Author: Barbara Kruger

Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile.

Author: Tim LaHaye

We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

Author: Amy Lee

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.

Author: Anne McCaffrey

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.

Author: Scott McCallum

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.

Author: Robert McChesney

So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.

Author: Robert McChesney

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

Author: Sarah McLachlan

So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

Author: Vince McMahon

I think the media is a real demon.

Author: George Michael

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Author: Jim Morrison

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

Author: Kate Moss

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

Author: Jose Mourinho

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

Author: Yousef Munayyer

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

Author: Mike Myers

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Author: Alva Myrdal

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

Author: Ted Nelson

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

Author: Alva Noto

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

Author: Barbara Olson

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

Author: Joel Osteen

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

Author: Sarah Palin

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

Author: Darrell Royal

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Author: Joe Scarborough

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

Author: Kenneth Starr

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

Author: Bruce Sterling

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Author: Tom Stoppard

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

Author: Jock Sturges

The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

Author: Jimmy Swaggart

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

Author: David Talbot

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

Author: David Talbot

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

Author: David Talbot

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Author: Curt Weldon

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

Author: Paul Weyrich

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

Author: Ryan White

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

Author: Bob Woodward

We need to police ourselves in the media.

Author: Bob Woodward

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

Author: Bob Woodward

For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.

Author: Will Wright

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

Author: Tina Yothers