Quotes About Media

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.

There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.

When I see images of a girl who is obviously far too thin, I am just as shocked as anyone else.

I feel like it's always about how this girl stays thin, or what one girl is doing to another, and it shouldn't be that way.

I think the culture of the red carpet is too much like a modern-day coliseum. If you're being photographed all the time, and you don't like having a bad photograph taken, and if you're super, super thin, chances are you're never going to look fat in a picture.

If you're in the public eye, you're constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It's just a shame those are the reactions people have.

I think that's just part of what people do and part of being a female in the media. One day it's, 'Doesn't she look thin,' then the next day, 'She's put on weight.'

Unfortunately Bollywood goes ga-ga over thin not fit bodies.

There are only certain kinds of people who are shown falling in love. It's by and large always heterosexual, it is either thin or fair people. It's not like that in the real world.

Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.

Twitter can make a lot of things happen if you get enough retweets.

I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

I want people in their 20s to think of 'Swing' the way a generation in the 1960s thought of 'Esquire' - as the voice of young thinkers.

There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like 'General Relativity still governing planetary orbits' or 'Phlogiston theory remains false'? By the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline.

The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.