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Quotes About Media

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!
~ John F. Kennedy
I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be... ahm... voluptuous!
~ Kathy Griffin
All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.
~ Maurice Saatchi
There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.
~ NeNe Leakes
Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.
~ Nick Denton
Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.
~ Rex Murphy
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
~ Bill Keller
No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
~ Felix Dennis
When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.
~ Gore Vidal
I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.
~ Eli Pariser
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.
~ Alexander Skarsgard
There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
~ Bobby Darin
Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."
~ Casey Affleck
The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.
~ Courtney Love
When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
~ Dick Van Dyke
When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."
~ Fran Lebowitz
I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.
~ Gretchen Carlson
In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.
~ Hugh Bonneville
When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.
~ John Mayer
The TV provides pictures, therefore creates fame, and that's what makes it seductive to a lot of people. They want to be famous. They want to be recognized. And I've gotten all that out of my system.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
~ Tom Peters
Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
~ Truman Capote
I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.
~ Glenn Beck
The media coverage for Donald Trump has been almost cheerleading over the last couple weeks. And I'm convinced it's because many in the press want him to be the nominee.
~ Marco Rubio