Quotes About Media

Las "libertades políticas" no son nada sin las libertades o la autonomia económica, sea en el terreno individual, o en el colectivo. En este último, porque en régimen democrático son los grupos en posesión de riqueza quienes controlan la prensa y todos los demás medios de formación de la "opinión pública" y de la propaganda.

Así son los blancos. Pierden un gato y hacen sonar la alarma y hay titulares en primera plana, pero nosotros, los dominicanos, perdemos una hija y puede que ni cancelemos la cita en la peluquería.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

The new normal is to have strong women and girls as typical a character for television, films, and books. There wouldn't be a need to have a category for "Strong Women". Strong by Kailin Gow

If you write about the Asian culture, be accurate between what is the difference between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Thai, Taiwanese, Indonesian, and many individual Asian countries' cultures. While there are many similarities, the differences in cultures will set your novel apart from what is an authentic portrayal to what is a westernized version. - Kailin Gow on Asian Portrayals through Literature and Media

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

I don't do interviews.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

I could do interviews all day.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

Inherently, I'm not a huge extrovert, so I actually find interviews and all the glamour to be a bit challenging sometimes.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

I don't really like doing interviews.

I'm frightened of interviews.