Quotes About Media

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

a muslim man carries out a mass shooting...and he's called a terrorist, a white man does exactly the same thing and he's called a madman both sets are mad, Yazz I know, Warris I know -p58, from Girl, Woman, Other

people have to share everything they do these days, from meals, to nights out, to selfies of themselves half naked in a mirror

Let's be very clear. Corporate media is not "objective"; they are not the "referees" trying to provide "all sides of the story." Corporate media are profit-making entities owned and controlled by the ruling class and some of the wealthiest people in the country. And, like all private corporations, they have an agenda.

But oligarchy is not a uniquely Russian phenomenon. It's a global reality that our corporate media chooses to examine in only the narrowest of terms. What about the oligarchs of America? What about the perverse and destructive role that they play in shaping our society? Why is there no acknowledgment, by our political and media elites, that there is an American oligarchy every bit as dangerous as the oligarchies we decry in other countries?

Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities.

I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone ' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

We are never allowed to forget what the billboards, television, movies and the press would have us remember. From Mademoiselle 1955

The bloodthirsty killers were the men who gunned down the Cheyenne children and women, then returned to mutilate the bodies and set the village on fire. Chief Black Kettle and his people had already signed for peace." "The newspapers at home never tell that side of the story." "Maybe they should.

including one entitled Criminal Investigative Failures. Having read the Chronicle article and seen the KXAN-TV broadcast, Rossmo

The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... you know, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

People ask where my political views and visions come from. That started practically when I was old enough to walk. We didn't get a TV for a while, but when we did, there was Oswald getting shot, live on TV in the living room. There was the Berlin wall going up, the bloody Vietnam war, Watergate, the race riots started by the police. Network news wasn't so censored then. You would see how badly wounded people where when they took them off the chopper. News wasn't all sanitized like it is today.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper

I am going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

The media knows what sells—conflict and division. It's also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sneering one-liner, no matter how bogus, is seen as straight talk, while a calm, well-argued response is seen as canned and phony.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.