Quotes About Media

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends' lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

I don't knock films or television shows, but they nail you down to a kind of externality. Nothing is going to be communicated which demands a softer approach--or let's say a more insidious approach--into the soul.

I see a great many things now that I couldn't see when I was a young person. And I don't like everything that I see. For instance, I see people spending about fifty hours a week in front of the tv, which means that they have no more family life, they belong to the crowd, so to speak, they belong to the media, and they have no individual perspective, they derive their observations, they get them ready made from somebody who packages them. I don't think that's a very good thing for anybody.

THE MEDIA response to unusual weather is as ritualized and predictable as the stages of grief. First comes denial: "I can't believe there's so much snow." Then anger: "Why can't I drive my car, why are the trains not running?" Then blame: "Why haven't the local authorities sanded the roads, where are the snowplows, and how come the Canadians can deal with this and we can't?

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

Words are important he realized, especially in a nation ruled by its media.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media," I said, meaninglessly.

the threshold between the hospital and its outside was like a threshold between worlds, between media.

journalists (another tribe adept at misremembering the past)

Video killed the radio stars, and digital killed the old 'inkies'. (Ben Macintyre writing in The Times about the death of the New Musical Express (NME) in print.)

Imitation docks and an oil storage complex were constructed by set builders from Shepperton Studios following plans drawn up by the architect Basil Spence. King George VI's tour of this impressive and entirely unusable installation was duly reported in the press for the Germans to read.

I never read the business pages of the newspaper; I couldn't relate to the stories.

asking them to refrain from media interviews.

We expected reporters' questions to be more pointed and more technical than those usually asked by members of Congress.

I knew that these more specialized reporters were best equipped to understand and then explain what we were doing and why. Other media would pick up on their reporting.

We were more likely to see an unfair or inaccurate story from journalists who did not usually cover the Fed and were, consequently, less well informed.