Quotes About Media

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we've only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won't see movies with girls as protagonists.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

I will not allow the liberal left, social media, or fake news to define me and my family.

It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before.

The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.

I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.

I'll say this, the mayoral position - because of COVID, because of the 24-hour news cycle, because of social media - it's been elevated.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

Social media is social. We're looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time.

Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.

When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.

I'm not on any social media. I'm a bit analog when it comes to the Internet and technology.

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

Social media is just more media.

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

It's a new era with regard to social media. It's just something that we have to adapt to and accept.