Quotes About Media

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

It's not information overload. It's filter failure.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Muito cuidado, o fanatismo é extremamente infeccioso, mais contagioso do que qualquer vírus. Pode-se contrair fanatismo facilmente, até mesmo ao tentar vencê-lo ou combatê-lo. Basta ler os jornais ou ver televisão para verificar como as pessoas se convertem facilmente em fanáticos antifanáticos, em fanáticos antifundamentalistas, em cruzados antijihad.

When I read a magazine, I feel connected to the world, in on everything. When I read a book, I feel removed from the world, isolated, as if I've slipped off into a soundproof booth. It is the same with listening to the radio (connected) versus listening to a CD (removed). Both fill a certain need, balance the other out. There's the getting away, and then there's the coming back.

the invention of celebrity, a concept made possible by new technologies for the cheap dissemination of images.

Most Amerikans do not read books--they prefer television. Academics lock books in a tangled web of mindfuck and abstraction. The notion is that there are ideas, then art, then somewhere else, unrelated, life.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

Whenever there's smoke and the leftist media aren't calling 911, that means there's a huge fire raging out of control somewhere. But

Make no mistake: America is in a media war. It is an extension of the Cold War that never ended but shifted to an electronic front. The war between freedom and statism ended geographically when the Berlin Wall fell. But the existential battle never ceased.

think critically about what you read and hear. You need to ensure that the knowledge in your portfolio is accurate and unswayed by either vendor or media hype.

In war-as-spectacle, appearances could be more important than reality, because appearance often ended up determining reality.

Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies.

I do not want to believe everything I read in the press. The papers, particularly the online editions, publish a lot of false news.

News you can't read calmly, don't read at all!

And when we do put on a video or otherwise fire up a screen for a purpose, we'll follow another principle: never entertain your children with anything you find unsatisfying, just like you shouldn't feed your children anything you don't enjoy eating yourself. Feed them with food that is both tasty and nutritious—and entertain them with movies, books, and stories that are both tasty and nutritious too.

It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.

For some odd reason, Compact Discs and Digital Video Discs are spelled as discs, not disks.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

It's the movies that have been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Andy Warhol

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.