Quotes About Media

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it.

Hollywood life is never true. Ever.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero hero on his fucking epic journey. When there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed.

Naturally, that doesn't mean that all the news which now reaches us from all over the world is true. One of the things I also learned was not to believe everything I read in the newspapers.

Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance with a simple child-like faith in the system that, not coincidentally, has made him a millionaire.

The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures.

what was being called objectivity was really neutrality with journalists holding the victim or the weak to the same level of interrogation to which they held the perpetrator or the powerful. not surprisingly this balancing act this so-called objectivity worked in favor of the powerful.

The transformation of newspapers and news channels into corporations which made them addicts of profit (and therefore rating and online clicks), and that's eventually left less space for boring truths and facts, couldn't have been demonstrated more bluntly. . It was as if Trump were reminding the press of the old journalistic adage: "Follow the money.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

What's really notable about the Logi's refusal to engage with us in our own language and media is how they've forced us to communicate on their terms. Our dire economic need to forge a productive relationship with another species has made us accept them and their demands. This gives them a lot more control over how they're seen, meanwhile forcing us to put all the effort into communication, such as our network of translators.

One of the more insidious features of Trumpism is that it deliberately seeks to occupy every ounce of our attention. In doing so, it aims to force our resignation to the banality of evil and the mundaneness of cruelty.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.

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When I was young, journalism was all about the five double-yews: Where, When, Why, What, and Who. Today it's about the gees: Garbage and Gossip.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.