Quotes About Media

Nearly 70 percent of children's shows contain some violence, whereas 57 percent of nonchildren's shows do (Wilson et al., 2002). Furthermore, a typical hour of children's programming contains 14 different violent incidents, compared with 6 per hour in all other programming.

children could learn new aggressive behaviors as easily from a cartoon-like figure as from a human adult, a result that clearly implicates animated TV shows as an equally unhealthy teacher of aggression.

findings suggest that violent media exposure can produce acute and chronic desensitization to violence by reducing the extent to which the emotional impact of violence is elaborated in the brain.

the average American child now witnesses more than 10,000 violent crimes (e.g., murder, rape, and assault) each year on television—about 200,000 total violent crimes by the time they are in their teens

Is desensitization a transitory or a permanent byproduct of media violence? Can people become resensitized to real-world violence?

Any act of violence results from the convergence of many risk factors that may include access to weapons, home environment, peer influences, mental health issues, substance use, and social isolation, among many others. Violent media, including music, may be one of those risk factors but is neither sufficient nor necessary for people to commit acts of violence

Those who view greater amounts of violent television and film portrayals of many kinds tend to engage in higher levels of aggressive behavior.

Conversely, the (social and individual) positive effect sizes for homework and scholastic achievement, calcium intake and bone mass, and self-examination and extent of breast cancer are actually smaller than the effect size for the adverse association of aggressive and antisocial behavior with exposure to violent television and film portrayals. Thus, the media effect sizes stand up quite well when compared with those for other effects whether the focus is on undesired or desirable outcomes.

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

The mother of all fake news. You may have seen fake news before, but nothing like what I'm on the verge of perfecting. Soon, I'll be able to make videos showing sweet little Paigey here kicking puppies to death. Or screwing a roomful of tattooed bikers. Or praising Hitler. And the videos will look so real—so perfect—a forensic scientist will vouch for their authenticity. And seeing is believing. The potency of this tool will be astonishing.

And now that Martin was involved, she would actually be meeting a man who had skyrocketed to the top of the business world and was the darling of the media, replacing Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg before him. Eben Martin was larger than life.

But while the West often failed to understand the motivations of these extremists, the extremists understood the motivations of the West only too well. They found the West soft. Gullible. Stupid. Its media easily manipulated.

So the old saying now becomes, 'the man with a thousand media outlets, each providing its own, differing spin on the news, never knows what's true.

over the past fifty of your years, you've improved your health, longevity, literacy, quality of life, prosperity, and everything else. Dramatically. Yet almost all of you believe the opposite is true. Why? Because your news and social media is almost all negative. All alarming. All divisive. You've become more pessimistic, more tribal, than ever before. Your politicians ever more corrupt, manipulative, and self-serving.

You really don't get it, do you? Most people are sheep. Stupid and uninformed. And they don't dig. They don't think for themselves. They'll trust a sincere voiceover and whatever the television tells them.

Anyone with a negative story to tell about her could get an instant nationwide audience.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

Beano, buying the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Calgary

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness. Was the sum of European endeavour and achievement really meant to culminate in this?

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.

Search for 'Black family' and you will see smiling black families all the way down, without even a mixed-race family in sight. Type in 'White family' on the other hand and three out of the five images in the first line alone are either of a black or mixed-race family. Soon it is black family after black family.