Quotes About Media

We live in interesting times. Information overload can make it difficult to sift fact from fiction.

I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

There are so many families that are divided by Fox and Trump. I think a lot of people have been surprised by just how deep and how corrupt the roots are - how there's been collusion between Fox and Trump right in plain sight the whole time, and yet it's not often recognized.

In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more thinking and understanding, and it brings us together.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media's caricature: rapacious privateers who destroy companies.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition and anyone who thinks differently from the ruling party.

When you sign over your music to the BBC or Channel 4, you are signing it over, and they either use it, or they don't.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

After directing broadcast media coverage for seven House committees, I know the signs of a sideshow - and delivering demand letters to reporters before they go to the person being asked to produce documents is one of the chief signs.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

Democrats want more censorship, not less, as long as it silences conservative voices.

Despite what traditional polling places and the media says, a majority of Americans support Donald Trump. A very silent majority.

I think television will do the same thing to radio that talkies did to silent movies.

In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing.

I know it sounds silly, but it takes some time getting used to all the cameras in your face. I think it's like playing jazz. After I learn the rules, I can have fun and play a little bit.

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

I don't really listen to the media or anyone's perception of beauty, so it makes me almost immune to silly comments about my body.

If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.