300 Quotes on Media

• Amidst the cacophony of the present, we discover reverberations of yesterday's pixelated dreams, where each forlorn dial nullifies time just as much as it reawakens deeper connections.

  Author: Elise Thornton

• In the quiet hum of an old dial-up connection, nostalgia weaves a vivid tapestry that intrigues digital explorers in search of pathways yesteryear.

  Author: Riley Aviva

• In a woven tapestry of information, digital authenticity hangs by a padding thread, cradled by faith yet whispering ease from plan.

  Author: Clara Emailsworth

• In an era where algorithms pulsate distinct voices into mere echoes, the authenticity we hold dear answers back in fragile whispers.

  Author: Callan Whitby

• The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

  Author: Neil Young

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

  Author: Tina Yothers

• I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• 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

• I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from 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

• We need to police ourselves in the media.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• 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

• Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

  Author: Evan Wood

• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  Author: James Wolcott

• There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

  Author: Terri Windling

• I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

  Author: Roy Williams

• One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

  Author: Rowan Williams

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

  Author: Robin Williams

• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Author: Montel Williams

• Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

  Author: George Will

• Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

  Author: Leon Wieseltier

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

  Author: Ryan White

• So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

  Author: Curt Weldon

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

  Author: Curt Weldon

• What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

  Author: James Walsh

• The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

  Author: Grete Waitz

• We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

  Author: Gore Vidal

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

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

  Author: Fred Upton

• The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

  Author: Ted Turner

• We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

  Author: Ted Turner

• The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.

  Author: Ivanka Trump

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

  Author: Linda Tripp

• I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.

  Author: David Thewlis

• Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• 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

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

  Author: David Talbot

• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  Author: David Talbot

• People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

  Author: David Talbot

• 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

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

  Author: Jimmy Swaggart

• 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. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

  Author: Tom Stoppard

• And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

  Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

• I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

  Author: Sting

• With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• 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

• I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

  Author: John Starks

• Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.

  Author: Britney Spears

• Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

  Author: Merrie Spaeth

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

  Author: L. Smith

• As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

  Author: L. Smith

• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  Author: L. Smith

• In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

  Author: Delia Smith

• But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

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

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

  Author: Peter Shilton

• I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

  Author: Tim Scott

• He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

  Author: Bill Scott

• Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

  Author: Tom Scholz

• So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

  Author: Sally Schneider

• The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

  Author: Eric Schmidt

• After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

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

  Author: Joe Scarborough

• This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.

  Author: Joe Scarborough

• There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

  Author: John Sayles

• The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

  Author: John Sayles

• Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

  Author: Rick Santorum

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

  Author: Justin Sane

• I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

  Author: Barry Sanders

• Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

  Author: David Sanborn

• There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

  Author: Gabriela Sabatini

• I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

  Author: George Ryan

• 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.

  Author: Marco Rubio

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

  Author: Darrell Royal

• In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

  Author: Bryan Robson

• Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

  Author: John Robinson

• It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

  Author: Jef Richards

• For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

  Author: Frank Rich

• But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

  Author: Donna Rice

• I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

  Author: Giovanni Ribisi

• Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

  Author: Mary Retton

• In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.

  Author: Ivan Reitman

• When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

  Author: Tim Reid

• Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

  Author: Maureen Reagan

• 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.

  Author: John Ratzenberger

• How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

  Author: Dennis Prager

• Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

  Author: Michael Powell

• But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

  Author: Chaim Potok

• Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

  Author: Pete Pont

• The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

  Author: Michael Pollan

• Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  Author: Danica Patrick

• 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 think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

  Author: Carl Paladino

• This is God's world this is not the media's world.

  Author: Terrell Owens

• 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

• In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

  Author: John Olver

• 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

• Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• 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

• I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

  Author: Yannick Noah

• Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

  Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

• I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

  Author: Huey Newton

• It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

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

  Author: Ted Nelson

• It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

  Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev

• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• 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

• 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

• Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

  Author: Edmund Muskie

• And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.

  Author: Eddie Murray

• 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.

  Author: Rupert Murdoch

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

  Author: Yousef Munayyer

• It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

  Author: Bill Mumy

• Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

  Author: Roger Mudd

• At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• 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

• By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

  Author: Constance Motley

• 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

• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  Author: Van Morrison

• For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

  Author: Matthew Modine

• I think the media is a real demon.

  Author: George Michael

• The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

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

  Author: Vince McMahon

• The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• 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

• Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

  Author: Robert McChesney

• As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.

  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

• 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

• Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• 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

• Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

  Author: John McCain

• 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

• So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

  Author: Thom Mayne

• Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.

  Author: Nigel Mansell

• There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

  Author: Preston Manning

• I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

  Author: Stephen Malkmus

• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  Author: Malcom Malcom X

• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

  Author: Gavin MacLeod

• So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

  Author: Robert Lutz

• Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

  Author: Trent Lott

• In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.

  Author: Mark Lloyd

• There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

  Author: Michael Lewis

• And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

  Author: Monica Lewinsky

• The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

  Author: Annie Lennox

• The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

  Author: Janet Leigh

• We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

  Author: Tim Lee

• I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

  Author: Spike Lee

• I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

  Author: Brenda Lee

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

  Author: Amy Lee

• It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

  Author: Christian Lange

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

  Author: Tim LaHaye

• 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

• 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

• Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.

  Author: Joe Krauss

• It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.

  Author: Chuck Klosterman

• Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five.

  Author: Jurgen Klinsmann

• Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

  Author: Michael King

• 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

• Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

  Author: Val Kilmer

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

  Author: Shahrukh Khan

• When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

  Author: Alan Keyes

• 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

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

  Author: Bill Keller

• I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.

  Author: Maynard Keenan

• Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

  Author: Abdul Kalam

• I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

  Author: Kato Kaelin

• The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

  Author: Kato Kaelin

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

  Author: Bill Joy

• I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

  Author: Tom Jones

• 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

• Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• I always saw myself as a multi media artist.

  Author: Holly Johnson

• Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

  Author: Ian John

• 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

• I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

  Author: Bianca Jagger

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

  Author: Wanda Jackson

• Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.

  Author: Tito Jackson

• I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

  Author: Jesse Jackson

• Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a heart attack? People talk about lyrical content. There is no media responsibility. Movies, the porn industry, it has to be across the board or it's ineffective.

  Author: Curtis Jackson

• The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

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

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  Author: Lance Ito

• I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

  Author: Joichi Ito

• Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

  Author: Joichi Ito

• Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

  Author: Joichi Ito

• 'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

  Author: Michael Irvin

• There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

  Author: Michael Ignatieff

• I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

  Author: Evan Hunter

• Language makes infinite use of finite media.

  Author: Karl Humboldt

• Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

  Author: Jane Hull

• Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

  Author: Arianna Huffington

• Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

  Author: John Hooker

• In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'

  Author: Brad Holland

• I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

  Author: John Hewson

• Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

  Author: Kristin Hersh

• 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.

  Author: Jesse Helms

• I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

  Author: Richard Hell

• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  Author: Zahi Hawass

• The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

  Author: Jim Harrison

• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

  Author: Ed Harris

• It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

  Author: Geri Halliwell

• Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

  Author: John Hall

• There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

  Author: Marvin Hagler

• We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

  Author: David Hackworth

• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Author: Jurgen Habermas

• 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

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

  Author: Garrett Graff

• It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

  Author: Steffi Graf

• Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

  Author: John Gotti

• Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

  Author: Tipper Gore

• Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

  Author: Amy Goodman

• 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.

  Author: Alberto Gonzales

• The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids."

  Author: Malcolm Gladwell

• I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

  Author: Todd Gitlin

• 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 don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

  Author: Todd Gitlin

• Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

  Author: Todd Gitlin

• The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

  Author: Todd Gitlin

• Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

  Author: Allen Ginsberg

• The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

  Author: Greg Ginn

• 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

• I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.

  Author: Sara Gilbert

• The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

  Author: Antonio Gaudi

• And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

  Author: Peter Garrett

• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  Author: Pat Garrett

• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Author: Lesley Garrett

• When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

  Author: Janeane Garofalo

• 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

• The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

  Author: David Frum

• But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

  Author: Al Franken

• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  Author: Al Franken

• I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

  Author: Al Franken

• We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

  Author: Vicente Fox

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

  Author: Jim Fowler

• So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

  Author: Milos Forman

• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Author: Ernst Fischer

• Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

  Author: Carly Fiorina

• A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

  Author: Howard Fineman

• It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

  Author: Howard Fineman

• The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

  Author: Howard Fineman

• You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

  Author: Rio Ferdinand

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