Quotes About Media

T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.

And how much more do we need Korzybski's consciousness of abstracting at a time when so much of our lives are spent absorbed in the highly abstracted and mediated maps rendered by our digital technologies, new media, and online communications?

Mild though Obama's observations were, all the tropes of the angry black man out to get revenge were thrown at him, especially in talk shows on radio and TV, with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck leading the charge. Among other things, Obama's policies were accused of being covert attempts at getting 'reparations' for slavery, segregation, and discrimination.

Elisabeth skims the day's paper on her phone to catch up on the usual huge changes there've been in the last half hour.

Once it would have been a year's worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.

I'm tired of the news. I'm tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren't, and deals so simplistically with what's truly appalling.

And now for our entertainment when we want humiliation we've got reality TV instead, Iris says. And soon instead of reality TV we'll have the President of the United States.

But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff

We are taught to think ourselves ugly. Eyes are an assaulted sense. We are taught to behave by spankings and whippings. Touch is an assaulted sense. We are taught we should not smell, or we smell wrong. Smell is an assaulted sense. We listen to songs that call us 'hos and tell us how to give blow jobs. Hearing is an assaulted sense. Taste, not so much.

Shortly after he got back to his office from his Today show segment, Rich received a call from a furious Marc Deitch. "It was frightening," Rich acknowledged later, declining to discuss what was said to him.

She sighs heavily. "Not surprising. It'd be everywhere if they were rich white girls." Goes back to her keyboard. "Anyway … I hope they catch his sorry ass." "Yeah. Me

Television enters not only the room, but also the tastes of old and young alike, appealing to the immediately pleasant and subverting whatever does not conform to it.

First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society.

Disease mongering cannot occur in a vacuum—it requires that the drug companies engage the active collaboration of the doctors who write the prescriptions, the patients who ask for them, the researchers who invent the new mental disorders, the consumer groups that advocate for more treatment, and the media and Internet that spread the word.

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

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

le programme télévisé est souvent l'unique conversation des gens. C'est pour ça que tout le monde regarde les mêmes choses : pour ne pas être largué et avoir quelque chose à partager.

Ainsi, en cette journée terrible où le monde entier tremblait à l'idée de la guerre imminente, un vieillard adipeux, paralytique et désarmé, avait réussi à détourner du Golfe l'attention d'une poignée et prêtres médiatiques.

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.