Quotes About Media

There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses.

Many of the "scientific" or scholarly ideas about Jesus paraded in the media every Christmas and Easter are increasingly obsolete, based on assumptions, theories and unproven hypotheses that are, in some cases, more than a century old and which have been superseded by more recent research.

the media run everything, yeah, but they shouldn't run the law, too.

the onerous part of being the district attorney was putting up with an exploitative and sensationalizing media and dealing with a myriad of special-interest groups, all of whom thought they were being ignored, or discriminated against, or deserved more, and all of whom knew that they could do his job better than he could. He was also tired of watching incompetent judges and ethically challenged lawyers make a mockery of the system.

We may feel less a part of a cohesive society today not so much because of all the outrageous behavior we see reported in our media but because we are deprived of an accompanying sense of collective offense in response to the outrageous behavior.

There's this primary America of freeways and jet flights and TV and movie spectaculars, and people caught up in this primary America seem to go through huge portions of their lives without much consciousness of what immediately surrounds them. The media have convinced them that what's right around them is unimportant. And that's why they're lonely.

Pictures aren't intellectual media. Pictures are pictures. The movie business belonged to the celebrity people and they wouldn't begin to know how to portray an intellectual book like his.... But what he saw at this point was a social pattern of values, a film, devouring an intellectual pattern of values, his book. It would be a lower form of life feeding upon a higher form of life. As such it would be immoral.

You don't count. You're not what they're looking for. You're not on TV.

Noise is either created inside our heads or comes from outside, often from friends, family, co-workers, and the media.

So I chose a title that would get me on more TV and radio shows, simply because I was willing to be controversial.

Ninety percent of the population buys TV sets, and only about 10 percent buy business books.

I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere.

Wag the Dog became an international byword for fake wars staged to distract from domestic political problems. Without a doubt, it raised the level of cynicism, which is to say it raised the level of awareness that real events are directed and staged for their political impact.

Bill Maher, on a program called Politically Incorrect said "lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building—say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Maher was fired and the program was terminated. Some portion of the media should have risen up in outrage, not necessarily to defend Maher and get him his job back, but in defense of speaking the truth. They did not.

When Diana put her mind to something, nothing was allowed to stand in her way. As she said, "Because I've been given the gift to shine a light into the dark corners of the world, and get the media to follow me there, I have to use it," and use it she did—to draw attention to a problem and in a very practical way to apply her incredible healing gifts to the victims. —Simone Simmons

Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.

Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie.

But whenever there's the right kind of nut making headlines, a Slasher or an Icepick Prowler, a certain number of people get pistol permits and a certain number of others buy illegal guns. Then some of them get drunk and shoot their wives. None of them ever seems to wind up nailing the Slasher. I

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.