Quotes About Media

If Jonny Rokeby turned up here, yes, the press would be fighting tooth and nail to get a shot of him. For fuck's sake. You're not that famous. Get the fuck over yourself.

Hearst was eager to stoke the flames of conflict between Spain and the United States over Cuba and sent Frederick Remington the photographer, who could find no signs of war. In a famous exchange of cables, Hearst responded to Remington, "You provide the pictures; I'll provide the war."10

Although advertising began in the late nineteenth century with the development of the first branded products, its true explosion came in the 1920s, when it became increasingly tied to the newly invented radio.

That panic had been over a single one-hour broadcast on one network in one country saying the world was coming to an end," continued Groves. "Imagine what a constant barrage of such coverage everywhere on the planet for weeks or months would do.

false stories had six times the retweeting rate on Twitter as true stories. The researchers did not interpret that finding as specific to Twitter, and the result may be specific to the time of the study, a time when mistrust of conventional media sources was higher than usual. Rather, these authors interpreted their results as confirming that people are "more likely to share novel information." In other words, contagion reflects the urge to titillate and surprise others.

Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.

newspapers do provide invaluable historical evidence not only of forgotten events but also of the way things looked before later events made them look different. And that is as much a part of history as the way things actually were.

We are already the most over informed, under reflective people in a history of civilisation. We already have a 24h news cycle, internet newspapers and continuous information about day to day unfolding of civic proceedings. Better informed people are not necessarily better educated people.

Today's television sitcoms...the father is typically depicted as a clumsy buffoon, an inane and even unnecessary appendage. In creating that caricature, producers and directors have done irreparable damage to the God-ordained image of what may be one of the most significant roles and offices in eternity - that of a father, that of a real man.

It is an American weakness. The success becomes the sage. Scientists counsel on civil liberty; comedians and actresses lead political rallies; athletes tell us what brand of cigarette to smoke.

When I crouch to my television set,the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.

Evil is everywhere and nowhere at the same time these days. You only have to read the papers to know there's no escaping it.

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio in fact it pays the bills.

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.

Cliche is at the root of audience dissatisfaction, and like a plague spread through ignorance, it now infects all story media.

It is woefully hard to find good, or even merely literate, writers, and they laugh at me when I say that sloppy, go-as-you-please writing carries less authority than decent prose. You must remember our public, they say. And indeed that is what I do, and I think the public is fully able to deal with the best they can produce. Patronizing the public, and assuming that it hangs, breathless, upon what it reads in the papers, is almost the worst of journalistic sins.

Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects.

I stopped wearing expensive clothes, I kicked my addiction to six newspapers a day

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Amber has never been noted for its squeamishness," she said. "You have been exposed to too much American journalism.

The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character

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The power of the new mass media made Grant's illness a national spectacle, with his doctors offering twice-daily updates on his condition.