Quotes About Media

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

?It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era

I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated, ' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.

For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together

For five weeks, the Associated Press had provided the world with lurid coverage of the attack on Virgil Earp, which was labeled Cow Boy revenge for what was being called "the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" because it took too long to set the type for "Gunfight in the Vacant Lot behind Camillus Fly's Photography Studio Near Fremont Street.

Maybe it's different in Georgia," Wyatt said. "Out here, pretty much anything in the newspaper is a cheat or a lie.

loading your brain with subliminal messages.... How loathsome to turn a sadistic murder into entertainment [in the newspaper] -- and yet how hard not to read about it. What dark comedy to realize that you are scanning for descriptions of torture as you disapprove. Which of course only makes it more entertaining. But naturally I was hoping they'd report something grisly, you say to your friends, who chuckle lighthearted acknowledgment of hypocrisy.

Every reporter who came up in legacy media can tell you about a come-to-Jesus moment when an editor put them up against a wall and tattooed a message deep into their skull: show respect for the fundamentals of the craft, or you would not soon be part of it.

You can be a slave to current magazines or a slave to history

Propaganda seeks to destroy art in order to sanitize culture.

One thing is certain: Once the hostage-takings occurred, the government task forces acting under Putin's direct supervision did everything to ensure that the crises ended as horrifyingly as possible—to justify continued warfare in Chechnya and further crackdowns on the media and the opposition in Russia and, finally, to quell any possible criticism from the West, which, after 9/11, was obligated to recognize in Putin a fellow fighter against Islamic terrorism.

American media effectively declared the Russian story dead

Russia finally lost its bona fides in the eyes of international business and media.

The existence of alternative facts had become policy.

The media tycoon Ted Turner told a newspaper reporter in 2010 that other countries should follow China's lead in instituting a one-child policy to reduce global population over time.