Quotes About Media

72 Days is now an official unit of time known as a Kardash.

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

I could watch news, but that'd be too much like work. Plus, the idea of staying informed these days is an illusion - you pick whichever version of events you're going to believe and then block out anything that contradicts or undermines that view.

The big three television companies (CBS, ABC, and NBC) measured their audiences in tens of millions: when CBS broadcast the episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy had a baby to coincide with the actress who played Lucy, Lucille Ball, also having a baby, on January 19, 1953, 68.8 percent of the country's television sets were tuned in, a far higher proportion than were tuned in to Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the following day.

Campaign ads are often nothing more than political taffy. The ingredients- the facts gathered by researchers such as Alan and me- are mixed together and prepared for the machine. The media experts who create and produce the TV ads stretch and pull this concoction of information to its breaking point, and sometimes beyond. It's cut into thiry & sixty second spots and presented to voters for their viewing consumption.

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Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent and put out without a surgeon general's warning.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

At the bottom of this dark pit of media corruption lies the body of Daniel Morgan.

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

When I was on 'The Hills' I didn't get my personal life involved or my family, or my friends, they were never on it and I'm happy about that.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

New Yorkers are tired of hearing about my personal life.

I do use social media as a gateway into my personal life, but only to a certain extent. When I don't want to, I pull the blinds down.

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.

When I avoided interviews, it was mainly because I didn't want to speak only about my personal life.