Quotes About Media

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

If you have a food blog and want to connect with a bigger audience, Nom is for you.

I love connected culture.

Connecting with fans online can be the make or break or some artists, and I think that's a bit dangerous.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

It's really funny seeing all these media depictions of me as an intellectual because I'm a connoisseur of low culture.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness... it's manipulative and deeply political.

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

We live surrounded by people who sound like us, vote like us, spend like us. We get only the news we want to. And then scream into the social media echo chamber that is designed to serve us up information we already like.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play.

I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.

Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.

I've always loved the media and will continue to do so, but I do feel with due respect to all concerned that surrounding us and giving us no space to move becomes difficult when you're out with family.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

The media circus surrounding Sports Direct... only proves that whatever progress Sports Direct makes, it will always be subject to disproportionate scrutiny and misrepresentation.

In England, especially, mentally if you're not strong it can eat you up. There's the media, all the negativity surrounding footballers. If you're not mentally strong, it can eat you.

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

Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.