Quotes About Media

Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.

In studying the Bible as a young man, I found intimations of the idea that forms of media favor particular kinds of content and therefore are capable of taking command of a culture.

News is history shot on the wing.

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We have even managed to turn into a Twitter trending topic. All

They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk.

The pictures in the magazines almost put me off my job completely. I've always hated those color photographs of naked women in those stupid positions that are supposed to turn men on. I never felt that there was anything sexy about them.

On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

California is a bad influence.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.

The problem was that the American media and public could never distinguish between the lie and the truth.

Chi di voi vorrà fare il giornalista, si ricordi di scegliere il proprio padrone: il lettore.

The truth is, the Western media are quite easily manipulated, for they often craft their stories from press releases and tend, on the whole, to be indiscriminate about the nature and reliability of their sources.

There's nothing wrong with pornography. It's good for you. If politicians stuck to pornography the world wouldn't be in such a mess.

Si por mi fuera, pillaria todos los libros que hay, haria una pila enorme con ellos y los quemaría todos. Los libros sólo sirven para que los listos farden acerca de toda la mierda que han leído. Todo lo que necesitas saber lo puedes sacar de la prensa y de la tele. Capullos pretenciosos. Ya les daré yo jodidos libros.

Si por mi fuera, pillaría todos los libros que hay, haría una pila enorme con ellos y los quemaría todos. Los libros sólo sirven para que los listos farden acerca de toda la mierda que han leído. Todo lo que necesitas saber lo puedes sacar de la prensa y de la tele. Capullos pretenciosos. Ya les daré yo jodidos libros.

It's amazing how seedy scumbags (the press) can write shite, and demented retards (the public) suddenly go up in arms and then opportunistic slime (the politicians) jump right on the bandwagon. Such is British life. So now there is to be a 'comprehensive review of the facility'.

In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. Now that is gone, and the youngsters have their glazed eyes fixed on the television tube. The result is clear. True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily dumbing down.