Quotes About Media

politics of ontology" (Mack 1992) is then the primary arena in which the reality and significance of the UFO abduction phenomenon must be confronted. Before its potential meaning for our individual and collective lives can be realized it has to be taken seriously and moved out of the sensationalizing tabloids into the mainstream of the society so that the sophisticated media is free to give up their supercilious tone.

Although it cannot be proven that no elements of abduction experiences have been incorporated from these media, by and large abductees avoid media accounts of abductions and are uniquely distressed by them. My impression is that the traffic is stronger the other way – i.e. that abduction stories, based on actual clinical cases, find their way into the work of media producers hungry for this material.

Careful research on the complex relationship between the electronic and print media and the evolution of the alien abduction phenomenon waits to be undertaken.

In this media-dominated age very few people have not heard of herniated discs and the idea arouses great anxiety, resulting in greater pain. If, in the course of medical investigation, imaging studies show a herniation, the apprehension is multiplied even further.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.

we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...

For most people, media portrayals of the positive and satisfying sexual life of singles are disconnected with reality as they know it.

we reporters are not all that incentivized to determine whether the underlying facts behind the leaks are truth or fiction. The fact that an important person said it is itself newsworthy.

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

We no longer watch television news but, in the language of the broadcasting bosses, 'consume' it.

what the pictures cannot do is express the complexity that might help us understand why these terrible things are happening. Only words can do that. A world that depends more on images and dismisses reading and writing as 'cumbersome' will be a much cruder and probably an even more dangerous place. I

LinkedIn is 277 percent more effective for lead generation than Facebook and Twitter combined.

People are good but we don't really get to hear about them because the media is only interested in the freak show; it makes the world look much worse than it is.

Yes there are psychos out there but not as many as you think. Paedos make the news because what they do is disgusting. The millions, billions or whatever it is, of men who aren't paedos don't make the news.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

Jake Berry, a reporter with the Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire), concluded after a 2013 interview with gun control researchers: "On the whole, Lott's colleagues—both in the media and academia—don't dispute his findings [on gun-free zones].

The entire gun control debate would likely be dramatically different if the national media would cover some of the heroic actions of permit holders.

the media had its narrative before it knew any of the facts

National media outlets such as ABC,8 CNN,9 and NBC noted that the alleged gunman told another white man: "Whites don't kill whites." It sounded as if the gunman was merely reassuring a bystander. But that bystander was a permit holder who was pointing a gun at the killer. What the killer actually said was: "Don't shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don't shoot whites."10 The killer was pleading with a permit holder not to shoot him.

In 2019, Fox News' Greg Gutfeld explained to me what he called "the prison of two ideas." He told me that no one can seriously talk to or even be perceived as working with people on the "other side" of the debate, or they will be disowned by their own side. This applies not only to the media but also to politics generally. This surely explains much of the lack of civil, productive debate on guns.

The power of the negative media around the food industry drives my mind to enact a Woody Allen-ish skit whenever faced with a restaurant menu. For instance, beef translates to "mad cow disease," chicken morphs into "avian flu," fish reconstitutes to "mercury poisoning," and vegetarian option becomes "genetically modified crops." I am unsure what to pick, and moreover who I can trust when my selection is made.

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.