Quotes About Media

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

Journalism is organized gossip.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Garbo Talks!

Dewey Defeats Truman.

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.

The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn't influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time.

Every time I look at the news, I come one step close to becoming one of those Bond villains who is intent on destroying the world.

The working press -- a strange expression that; it calls up a picture of a horde of other pressmen lolling about Hollywood on sumptuous divans, smother by bevies of attendant odalisques, and thinking scornfully of their colleagues of the WORKING press -- the working press took kindly to the reception for the Baker Street Irregulars.

Journalism may not dare too much. It can be gently humorous and ironic, very lightly touched by idiosyncrasy, but it must not repel readers by digging too deeply. This is especially true of its approach to language: the conventions are not questioned. The questioning of linguistic conventions is one of the main duties of what we call literature.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.

Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels

that overeager reporters would somehow

You know, they say in America that the average child sees eight thousand murders before they leave elementary school. Makes you think, doesn't it.

The Daily Mail had branded the books 'pure porn poison', which the publishers had cheekily reprinted on the cover.

The fact is, you're as bad as some of those scum journalists who reported it. Stephanie was a lovely girl, lovely, and for a time we were happy together. But she was a mess. She drank and she took recreational drugs and in the end she died in Barbados. But I wasn't even on the boat when it happened.

in America that the average child sees eight thousand murders before they leave elementary school.

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I had no background in communications but what I did have was an excellent education from Providence College and a love of basketball. That afforded me the chance to be good on my feet and stay afloat while I learned the media business.

Money, ego, revenge and the seduction of being a media darling is pretty powerful stuff, and, John Bolton is proving he's not immune.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.