Quotes About Media

Every night, the TV news is like a nautre hike through the Book of Revelation.

Today brands are born, not made. A new brand must be capable of generating favorable publicity in the media or it won't have a chance in the marketplace. And just how do you generate publicity? The best way to generate publicity is by being first. In other words, by being the first brand in a new category.

Never run advertising until the major publicity possibilities have been exploited.

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

It is the news that introduces us to a far wider range of human beings than we could ever meet in person, and that over time, through the stories it runs and the way it comments on them, forms an idea in our minds about the kind of country we live in.

the news badly needs its audience to feel agitated, frightened and bothered a lot of the time – yet we have an even greater responsibility to try to remain resilient.

The news had, for Flaubert, armed stupidity and given authority to fools.

Web traffic figures for the BBC news website:

We are marginally—but crucially—less likely to question the soundness of an article about a rationale for going to war when it comes presented beneath the neo-Gothic Cheltenham typeface of the New York Times, or to probe the coherence of a thesis defending a presidential budget when it is laid out in the sober yet sensuous columns of Le Monde's Fenway font. Brands alone dissuade us from picking sceptically at their underlying content.

It is difficult to get the news from poems

National decline can be precipitated not only or principally by sentimental optimism, but also by a version of media-induced clinical depression.

The news has the ability to define the agenda by leading the attention of an audience to what it believes to be the issues of importance.

Yet the world, including many in the media, academia, and even diplomacy, seems to accept Palestinian violence as cultural. On the other hand, something different is expected from Israelis. This is cultural relativism bordering on racism. To expect less of Palestinians, regardless of their grievances, is to diminish their humanity.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.

Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother.

Like it or not, horror is part of our media, part of our culture, part of our life.

We form many of our political opinions through reading papers and unconsciously absorbing the rhetoric of the journalists. Later, we spout the same opinions as our own. This parallels the way we respond to any authority and its something politicians understand well.

I cannot see the word troubled prefixing the name of some poor starlet who has been dragged through the mire of tabloid spite without vomiting directly onto the newspaper. Troubled by whom? Troubled by you, you fuckwits.

No New York newspaper came to their defence or spoke out for Joyce.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Elliott, Marvin L. "Miracle of Hickory: Mass Media and the 'Miracle'." (2007), North Dakota State University.

Heavy exposure to media alters the viewer's perception of social reality in a way that matches the media world.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."