Quotes About Media

By 2018 the BBC seemed to have decided that items of specifically gay news needed to be not just reported but headlined as major news.

The 'rise of the far-right' in particular is such a trope in journalism that the far-right is said to be rising even when it is collapsing, as it did in Britain during the last decade.

For three years between 2014 and 2017 academics in the UK carried out a study about the images of men that women found attractive. The results, published in Feminist Media Studies, discovered a disturbing trend. Newsweek summed up the shocking findings in a headline, 'Men with muscles and money are more attractive to straight women and gay men – showing gender roles aren't progressing.

digital media are biased away from the local, and toward dislocation.

If nothing else, living in a digital media environment should help us become more aware of the programming all around us.

The net turned media back into a collective, participatory, and social landscape. But, as seemingly happens to each and every new medium, the net went from being a social platform to an isolating one. Instead of forging new relationships between people, our digital technologies came to replace them with something else.

I would define media in this way: working out from and including our bodies, media also include our clothes, other people, and tools, including especially tools for communication and infrastructure.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.