Quotes About Media

I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed.

I don't know about you, but I certainly feel so battered by seeing people wearing masks. It's all we hear, all we talk about, so that actually when you watch TV, the last thing you want to see all the time is people wearing masks.

It'd be nice to say that American media doesn't hate this country.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not.

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

Advertising is a nebulous beast at the best of times.

I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.

Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.

We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.

It's a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Interim belt is made for media and fans, not for me.

If Mrs. Roosevelt were writing today, she might put it this way: Don't let any single cable network or Twitter feed tell you what to think.

They all live in cities, together, and can act in a body readily and at all times; they give chief employment to the newspapers, and therefore have most of them under their command. The agricultural interest is dispersed over a great extent of country, have little means of intercommunication with each other, and feeling their own strength and will, are conscious that a single exertion of these will at any time crush the machinations against their government. Jefferson

TV is just troubled people being booed these days.

Glenn Beck did not fall into line. He told his listeners that Trump was a "dictator in the making.

On Twitter we make our own decisions about who deserves obliteration. We form our own consensus, and we aren't being influenced by the criminal justice system or by the media. This makes us formidable.

Oh, Ronson's all right," Alex told him. "I'm sure he's planning some form of sophisticated hit piece, but I don't care. It's always artfully done so it goes back and forth, you know." "Why is he wearing a snow jacket in 90-degree heat?" Stone muttered to Alex.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics — and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy — but I look at politicians as, they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.