Quotes About Media

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It's really sad, because that's what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

Nosotros, mientras tanto, vivimos en una era de miedo, negatividad y malas noticias. Las buenas noticias no venden porque no interesan a nadie.

It is tempting to think of such men as a deviant sub-culture, a pathological underground, a sick minority. Yet splatter films which revel in pornographic scenes where women are tortured and killed are part of the mainstream; music videos celebrating male violence against women to the point of death and beyond are also mainstream. Misogynist hate propaganda is so normalised it has faded into the texture of the everyday – and we barely notice how pervasive it is.

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libertarians to expand it.

Right-wing TV networks did not exist in 1917, but in that year was born a presidential tool even more powerful, a lavishly financed government propaganda agency that operated in every medium of the day: films, books, posters, newspaper articles, and a corps of 75,000 speakers who gave more than seven million talks everywhere from movie houses to revival tents. In addition, the federal government also attacked the press, both during and well after the First World War.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

Reporters would just use the most interesting (and, usually, unhelpful) sound bites in my lengthy responses to their questions, instead of writing about the message that we wanted to get out that particular day.