Quotes About Communication

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

a sinner is pleading to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates: "Wait, those weren't lies," the sinner says. "That was spin!

The only intelligence tests orcas don't pass are the ones that require hands.

George Harrison's cautionary words are a constant companion—"In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know

When people write software, they are not writing it for themselves. In fact, they are not even writing primarily for the computer. Rather, good programmers know that code is written for the next human being who has to read it in order to maintain or reuse it. If that person cannot understand the code, it's all but useless in a realistic development scenario.

Because writing teaches writers to write, this

When we fail to answer someone's questions and objections, we become just one more excuse for them to disbelieve.

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

blushing propensity should correlate with measures of people's interpersonal concerns.

In short, Marx understood the power of mass communication and the need to control it and shape it to frame events and opinions. In other words, the purpose was to propagandize, not inform.

These instruments can spread lies faster and farther than our forefathers dreamed when they enshrined the freedom of the press in the First Amendment to our Constitution.

Parler, MeWe, and Discord's community forums. Rumble, Vimeo, and Bitchute.

I mentioned that AT&T owns CNN. Comcast owns NBC. A partial list of others can be found at Investopedia.com

But when the media function as a propaganda tool for a

Americans believe that the media have an important role to play in our democracy—yet they don't see that role being fulfilled.

For the first time in our history, the news increasingly is produced by companies outside journalism, and this new economic organization is important.

should be to assemble not only a newsroom that might resemble the community but also one that is as open and honest so that this diversity can function.

Let every player have an equal chance to take an action or interact with one of your characters. Though you may naturally give more time to the more creative and inventive roleplayers in your group, never ignore the others.

I don't like to talk about my songs. It's self-defeating, it is the antithesis of what a songwriter wants to do. He writes a song so he doesn't have to talk about it.

I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

Reading is to an author as listening to music is to a composer. There's music in the words.