Quotes About Media

Utilizados de un modo, la prensa, la radio y el cine son indispensables para la resistencia de la democracia. Utilizados de otro modo, figuran entre las armas más poderosas del arsenal de un dictador.

The Times reports I've made £4.5 million in the last year (from my Star Wars income). Where do they get such nonsense?

The Times reports I've made £4.5 million in the past year (from my Star Wars income). Where do they get such nonsense?

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

When people call up Rush Limbaugh and say, 'It's an honor to speak to you,' I want to shoot myself.

You can't look anywhere without accidentally seeing the news.

best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Mix up your posts and don't use auto-share or posting programs because those put the same content everywhere. You want to engage your fans, not spam them with the exact same posts on all networks.

You know, it really doesn`t matter what (the media) write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

explain to a nation in the midst of urban crisis why cities would be better off if governments pulled down public housing instead of constructing it. As you might expect, that message infuriated city planners. The ensuing ruckus attracted the media like sharks to blood in the water.

Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.

Rock music carried the Woodstock Nation's banner while television represented much of what the bands and their audience stood against. More than a wasteland, TV was the idiot engine of the Establishment, electronic opiate of the consumerist masses, and thus a favorite object of ridicule and contempt.

high levels of time spent engaging in media can have a negative impact on romantic relationships, specifically on levels of relational aggression.

TV repeatedly triggers our orienting response—the instinctive reaction to pay attention to any sudden, changing, or novel stimulus. This orienting response evolved in the species because it helps us identify potential threats and react to them. Media producers use features such as edits, cuts, zooms, pans, and sudden noises to continually trigger our orienting response. In short, they exploit basic psychological and biological mechanisms to get and keep our attention.

Research also shows that children who habitually view highly attention-grabbing media are more likely to have later attention and impulse-control problems, both of which are related to aggression and school performance

Given the findings that television viewers enjoy violent and nonviolent programs equally (or enjoy nonviolent more than violent), how is it that media executives still follow the mantra "violence sells"? The answer: because violence brings a larger viewership

The propensity of research participants to choose violent programs suggests that people are drawn to view violent programs. However, in the end, those choosing violent programs may end up not enjoying them.

Perhaps the public would be better served by reframing the issue of media violence in terms of public health, where we seldom speak of causality (even with smoking and lung cancer) because of the variability among individuals and the nature of their exposures, but rather of alterations in "relative risk.

Early estimates indicated that the average American child or teenager viewed 1,000 murders, rapes, and aggravated assaults per year on television alone (Rothenberg, 1975).

fewer than 5 percent of violent programs featured an anti-violence message. In other words, almost all TV violence is glamorized or celebrated in the storyline.

The media industry's double standard of seeking to introduce digital devices and content into schools as powerful educational tools while disputing that children learn from or are changed by entertainment media: does not square with logic.