Quotes About Media

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a 'battered wasteland' where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive.

I'm influenced by many things. Simply turning on the television, I feel inundated with images and messages to be a certain way. So I try to limit my influences by being aware of what I allow into my environment. I'm always conscious of what's trying to creep into my subconscious.

People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.

We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.

It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more, and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off... and it does feel like it is taking something from you.

I'm visually stimulated, so I watch TV, movies, even Pinterest. A song could come from something as simple as being words splashed across a billboard or changing everyday turns of phrases.

It turns out that all of the things I was looking for in a governor, Trump has even more. He has been vetted by the media; he has been attacked by the media his entire life and is perfectly comfortable in front of a gaggle of microphones.

As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I've always been able to separate books I've loved from their movies, no matter how the film turns out.

People always talk about my heel/face turns. One of the jokes in America is I've had more turns than NASCAR.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we're telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

I don't have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.