Quotes About Media

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society's evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.