Quotes About Media

We forgot what happened yesterday. We know all about Paris Hilton. We know about that. But what do we know about why we are there in Iraq?

We're in bad shape as a country. We're suffering from the collapse of both political parties. They're bought out. They're owned by corporate America, lock, stock, and barrel. The media is sold out. The corporate dominant culture, which is driven by the market, the bottom line, sells out everything.

Media is spreading fear through fake pictures and videos to aid vaccine sale

This is not right on part of media to show artificial largest Covid cases on other days because they need to show highest spike only on weekends to spread panic and fear in public to increase vaccine sale.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

in an age when most people get their history from TV and movies, we are losing our collective sense of "what really happened.

Gazette described his competitor

Even before today she felt the daily deluge of alarming news related to Russian hackers, nuclear-armed North Koreans, police officers shooting innocent Black children, deranged gunmen popping up like whack-a-moles ambushing schools and holiday parties and church gatherings, people being violently hauled off airplanes, terrorists in Barcelona, melting ice caps, and dying polar bears, and she is on alert, and terrified, about absolutely everything.

Part of the problem is that if anybody has a gut reaction about an issue, they can go online and have it backed up. That said, they can also find support for their ideas in the mainstream media - because when the mainstream media gives a so-called balanced view, it's often misleading.

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.

You have Showtime, you have AMC, you have all of these, you know, incredible networks that are now bringing forth their product without the handcuffs, if you will, of trying to sell soap to the entire country.

I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!

I'm not that keen to do a daily soap, but I'm always ready for reality soaps.

I don't want to get into the daily soap drama.

You know what TV is? It's 22 minutes of selling soap.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.

I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

When I was growing up, you couldn't watch soccer on TV. But now, you can get it on every channel, every hour of the day, every day, literally.