Quotes About Media

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

The news was its usual discouraging self—people in Chicago can't help but shoot at each other, and we only hear about the ones who didn't miss.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

The New York Herald reported that a German soldier had been seen carrying a bagful of ears. Another newspaper accused Germany of melting down the enemy dead to manufacture soap.

Ensuring that we have a well-informed public citizenry is important for a well-functioning democracy, and that in turn requires an active and diverse media.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Advertising is a tax paid for being unremarkable.*" If that is true, then this tax is rising fast, which is good news for the government—not to mention production companies, media sellers, and agencies—

Avinash Kaushik refers to much of media communications as "faith-based initiatives." In other words, they are often futile attempts to bridge the vast chasm between the two ends of the funnel - exposure and conversion... (p. 5)

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Of course, it's the things you're not told that arouse your interest. The gaps in the news are the interesting bits.

Debería ver la tele más a menudo. Me relaja de un modo agradable. No distingo bien entre mis propios pensamientos y los que proceden de la tele.

Design Rule The Story Comes Later Do not spend a lot of time devising a story at the concept stage. This is a cardinal error frequently made by people who are more used to presentational media such as books and film. You must concentrate most of your efforts on the gameplay at this point. Types

Now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists..

Anyone smart enough to accomplish what they have should know better than to risk everything by talking to the vultures in the media.

Maybe every time an intelligent species grew advanced enough to invent a global computer network, they would then develop some form of social media, which would immediately fill these beings with such an intense hatred for one another that they ended up wiping themselves out within four or five decades.

I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show.

Now everyone could be on TV, every second of every day, whether or not anyone was watching.

Normally, the newsfeeds didn't interrupt everyone's interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that.

the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes

At first, I couldn't understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire's death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate change. Widespread famine, poverty and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: "dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria.

The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame.

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. I

Halliday had prepared a short video message, along with instructions that it be released to the world media at the time of his death.