Quotes About Media

and by using the media and lobbying on Capitol Hill, she persuaded (mostly Democratic) legislators to endorse her plan

Mankiw himself had ignited a short-lived media controversy by speaking favorably about outsourcing jobs to other countries

The media and politicians rarely pay attention to statements by economists, but unfortunately they do if the statements are sufficiently controversial (in the case of the media) or support preconceived views (in the case of politicians).

is not right that children be dunked headfirst into the vat of garbage we call popular culture.

No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it.

All this was lies. It was nasty, baseless, and ridiculous—there was far more evidence of anti-Semitism in the Occupy movement than there was evidence of racism within the Tea Party. But that didn't stop the media from trying. In fact, they and their friends tried so hard to label the Tea Party racist that they stooped to planting faux racists, including faux Nazis, at Tea Parties, just to gin up racial controversy. The Tea Parties threw the infiltrators out.

This sort of bullying isn't just present at the universities. It has taken over the media wholesale. For the media, all arguments are character arguments. If you disagree with the members of the media about something, you are a fundamentally bad human being. The same is eminently true in Hollywood, where moral narrative is the heart of the business.

For the media, all arguments are character arguments. If you disagree with the members of the media about something, you are a fundamentally bad human being. The

Now, twenty years later, Candice Bergen, who played Murphy Brown, admitted Quayle was right – but at the time, Quayle was running for re-election, and so he had to be wrong.

For the media, all arguments are character arguments. If you disagree with the members of the media about something, you are a fundamentally bad human being.

So she called in. After first convincing several producers that she was, in fact, Soledad Ramirez, and had no intention of screaming "bababooey" live on air, they let

A wise man once said that no one should call himself 'Dr.' unless he has delivered a child," Epstein wrote. "Think about it, Dr. Jill, and forthwith drop the doc."14 The media reacted with unmitigated scorn and fury. Dr. Jill, they said, was not merely a doctor—she was the greatest doctor since Jonas Salk.

There's a reason that major Democratic candidates work with Hollywood.

The university view of the media says that the New York Times is entirely objective, not wildly biased. Ditto for the Los Angeles Times. So too for CNN. In fact, the only non-objective news sources are Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Drudge Report. There is no liberal bias in the media.

The reason that conservatives lost the 2012 election was garishly simple: most people in America don't follow politics that closely. What they see about the various candidates are what the candidates say about each other, and what the media say about the candidates.

Leftists argue that professorial bias is irrelevant to their teaching. They say that even if a professor is liberal, he or she will undoubtedly offer a balanced view. This is blatantly false. As they do in the mainstream media, liberals dominate the "higher education" scene. And just as in the media, the liberal tilt is extremely real and extremely influential.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

The liberal media hates Republicans, the military, and Israel.

Nick Denton's core insight: in the newspaper era, the best stories were sometimes the ones reporters told one another in bars, rather than the ones they printed.

Donald Trump was made for Facebook. So was another type of content: attacks on Hillary Clinton.

Entonces no había periódicos, y las ideas políticas, así como las noticias, circulaban de viva voz, desfigurándose entonces más que ahora, porque siempre fue la palabra más mentirosa que la imprenta.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.