Quotes About Media

Social media provides a constant platform on which to feature what we deem beautiful, meaningful, and worthy.

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media player.

So great is society's demand for information that we can no longer say that all the news gathered is worthy of airing. Much of it is not.

The fact that many journalists approach the Clintons - especially Hillary Clinton - with a presumption that she has done something that if it's not outright corrupt is at least worthy of looking into, inevitably colors the way the public views the former secretary of state, and the way they respond to her in the polls.

We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

When Trump attacks the news media, he's kicking a wounded animal.

I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.

People say: 'Oh, but would you be happy for your show to go on BBC3 if it was just online?' If I was sat here telling you I had just signed a huge deal with Netflix you'd be going: 'Wow, that's amazing.' You can't see it as 'Oh, it's no longer a channel because it's not on TV.'

We talk about, 'Wow, thank God that we were out when we were, because it was much easier then.' There wasn't paparazzi following you every step of your day, every move you make.

I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, 'Wow, these networks have a lot of information.'

I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.

Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.'

I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.'