Quotes About Media

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

I buy about $1 500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

press, and Connolly had a plan, a work-in-progress

rebut Sarhatt's

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

Wir glauben nur das, was wir sehen. Darum glauben wir alles, seit es das Fernsehen gibt.

Movies are movies, television is television.

Slaves to our media delivery devices, we are ever available to this vague, demanding elsewhere, and our ability to experience the "now" is dissolving.

The media and the movies are showing you their desperation as they insist in presenting to the masses information that is completely negative and fear-based. Subject matter such as murder, death and betrayal, attacks and such that keep the consciousness focused on these matters, as opposed to portraying in the media images of hope and inspiration. But nevertheless, there are enough of those positive messages being broadcast at this time, that like a domino effect, they are no longer stoppable.

At such times as that, when the TV cameras begin creeping up on a mother weeping at her son's coffin, journalists should wonder where the profession is heading.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Left-wing lesbians are perfectly natural," Giorgio says, "but there's something about a right-wing lesbian that's, I don't know…almost North American. Sort of Fox News–ish.

It's the new face of narco gang war, isn't it? They're becoming media savvy. They used to hide their crimes, now they publicize them. I wonder if they haven't taken a page from Al Qaeda. What good is an atrocity if no one knows you did it? And maybe that's the lede on my story. "The crimes that used to lurk in shadows now seek the sunlight," or is that a little too "pulp"? Óscar will decide.

So you got Black Lives Matter up your ass, every citizen a journalist with a cell-phone camera at the ready, and you go to work each day with the whole world thinking you're a murdering racist. Okay

good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.