Quotes About Media

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

I love pop culture. I love gossiping about all the different stars.

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

I think we all have a love/hate relationship with the media.

One of my favorite occupations is making radio/video edits. I love singles.

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

You get reactions and you connect to people and I love Twitter.

The more competition and the more voices - that's why I love bloggers and anything else the Internet can produce in the way of new news voices.

People love pitting strong females against each other.

Social media is new to me and I didn't think I would like it, being very protective of my private space, but it's nice to connect to the love and positive vibes folks have to share.

I love it when celebrities fall apart.

Willa Jean did not feel she was beautiful because she was a healthy child. She felt beautiful like a grown-up lady on TV.

I read once that it takes 75,000 trees to produce one issue of the Sunday New York Times — and it's well worth every trembling leaf. So what if our grandchildren have no oxygen to breathe? Fuck 'em.

I read once that it takes 75,000 trees to produce one issue of the Sunday New York Times – and it's well worth every trembling leaf. So what if our grandchildren have no oxygen to breathe? Fuck 'em.

Matters were not helped, as David Bodanis points out in his superb book E = mc2, when the New York Times decided to do a story, and—for reasons that can never fail to excite wonder—sent the paper's golfing correspondent, one Henry Crouch, to conduct the interview.

A few months earlier, when a state official named Bud Dwyer was similarly accused of corruption, he called a press conference, pulled out a gun and, as cameras rolled, blew his brains out. This led to an excellent local joke.

People read more. It is no coincidence that the mid-nineteenth century saw a sudden and lasting boom in newspapers, magazines, books, and sheet music. The number of newspapers and periodicals in Britain leaped from fewer than 150 at the start of the century to almost 5,000 by the end of it.

wondering how many tens of thousands of days have passed since BBC One last showed a program that anyone not on medication would want to watch.

Above all, the 1920s was a golden age for newspapers. Newspaper sales in the decade rose by about a fifth, to 36 million copies a day—or 1.4 newspapers for every household. New York City alone had twelve daily papers, and almost all other cities worthy of the name had at least two or three.

The New York Times, with what was threatening to become a customary lack of prescience, forecast that it would never be a serious competitor for radio because "people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it."34

Nearly 250 daily newspapers folded in the decade after the birth of network radio.

Participation in our democracy seems to be driven by the instant-gratification worlds of Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and the twenty-four-hour news cycle. We're using modern technology to revert to primitive kinds of human relations. 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.

In the 1990s, as it began to feel the impact of cable news and syndicated infotainment programming, network evening newscasts became increasingly focused on tabloid crime and celebrity.