Quotes About Media

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

There's most definitely a Davos bubble. You're in a small Alpine town that, for just four days in January, sees its population tripled with world leaders, CEOs, media, police, the army... and a whole bunch of people who aren't invited but just come to hang out.

Politicians and leaders who see the media as 'the enemy within' divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions.

Hindi news is much more determinedly populist and lowbrow than the English channels.

I don't know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.

I kind of came about at the same time as Instagram, and it becomes, like, your portfolio. When people search who you are, they search Instagram, and I feel like people aren't even using Google anymore.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.

If Portland can truly have a true comics show that doesn't become a media show but retains its focus on comics, I think it's going to serve the city well. If this becomes a big show, it's going to bring in a lot of money for the city.

I was never one to feed into what the media was saying about us, especially out there in Portland because I was so in-touch with the people everyday.

The media try to make rank-and-file Americans feel guilty about buying a gun. The enemies of freedom demonize gun buyers and portray us as social lepers. But we know the truth. We know that responsible gun ownership exemplifies what is good and right about America.

I feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.

Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are.

Movies and TV are America's No. 1 export. So if our No. 1 export is all male, all white, then there's only one point of view. And I just think it's really important that as Americans - I'm a new American, but I am an American - that we don't portray ourselves to the world so one-sided and exclusive.

I think the media in general hasn't been very kind to fat women or fat people. We see so many insensitive portrayals of plus-sized people. That kind of stuff really affected me - not even necessarily the portrayal of fat people, but the absence of fat people.

There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'