Quotes About Media

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

The twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming.

Ah, the twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming.

Opportunity. In 1988 Bill Pattis joined Charles Z. Wick, Director of the U.S. Information Agency, and participated in the first U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Information Talks in Moscow, involving leaders from American media and Soviet counterparts. As a result of this work, he was named Chairman of the American Delegation for print media in follow-up talks with the Soviets in February 1990 in Washington, DC, and

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category within the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.'

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

The press may not be successful most of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about.

un programa popular de televisión— hace algo más que exponer al público a los mensajes publicitarios que lo acompañan, sino que también predisponen a esa audiencia, pre-suasivamente, a determinados tipos de mensajes comerciales.

Sabemos por numerosos estudios que jugar a videojuegos violentos incita de manera inmediata conductas antisociales.

we may be less satisfied with the physical attractiveness of our own lovers because of the way the popular media bombard us with examples of unrealistically attractive models.

If nothing is done to counter present trends, the major fault line in American politics will no longer be between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives. It will be between the "establishment"--political insiders, power brokers, the heads of American business, Wall Street, and the mainstream media--and an increasingly mad-as-hell populace determined to "take back America" from them.

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

The hotel balconies were mobbed. The beach was mobbed. A thousand heads and lenses swiveled in the same direction. Estimates later put the crowd in and around the Cape at nearly two million. According to police reports, more than a hundred wallets were lifted that night. There were two fatal stabbings, fifteen attempted assaults, and one premature labor. (The child, a four-pound girl, was delivered on a trestle table at the International House of Pancakes in Cocoa Beach.)

Maybe this was what the media was calling "desperate euphoria"—the we're-all-doomed-but-anything-can-happen feeling that had begun to peak around the time Wun went public. The end of the world, plus Martians: given that, what was impossible? What was even unlikely? And where did that leave the standard arguments in favor of propriety, patience, virtue, and not rocking the boat?

En un mundo dominado por las apariencias, en el que el valor está determinado por la presencia pública, el terrorismo puede ofrecer un espectacular atajo a la publicidad, y por eso los terroristas ajustan su violencia a los medios de información, particularmente a la televisión.

For instance, new forms of media have enhanced the age-old ability of politicians and others to play on our emotions, in ever subtler and more sophisticated ways. Advertisers bombard us with highly effective subliminal messages.

In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them—those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn. The Apprenticeship Phase is more relevant and important than ever, and those who discount this notion will almost certainly be left behind.