Quotes About Media

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction.

La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

We still have some time to take advantage of the fact that radio and television stations are not yet guarded by the army.

Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.

So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation.

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.

system, as the advanced economic sector which directly shapes a growing multitude of image-objects, the spectacle is the main production of present-day society.

On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.

Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.

The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality.

Conversely, real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle, and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it.

Imprisoned in a flattened universe bounded by the screen of the spectacle that has enthralled him, the spectator knows no one but the fictitious speakers who subject him to a one-way monologue about their commodities and the politics of their commodities. The spectacle as a whole serves as his looking glass. What he sees there are dramatizations of illusory escapes from a universal autism.

In contrast, the modern spectacle depicts what society could deliver, but in so doing it rigidly separates what is possible from what is permitted.

Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.

the working class is also occluded from representing itself in the throng of images that make up the society of the spectacle.

electronic realities of publishing. O'Reilly Media is one example. Let's take a look at its approach to publishing:

Sharing good stuff is 90 percent of the battle of getting more followers. Almost everything else is merely optimization. End of discussion.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.

Publicity is the engine of politics.