Quotes About Media

If enough money is involved, and enough people believe that two plus two equals five, the media will report the story with a straight face, always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that "mathematicians, however, say that two plus two still equals four." With a perverted objectivity that gives credence to nonsense, some mainstream news outlets have done more to undermine logic and reason than rapture ready.com could ever do.

A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.

Joe Public never took long to move to the next news sensation. Downed airliners, earthquakes in China, tsunamis killing tens of thousands, or myriad of disasters that trotted across the news bulletins regularly, all of them were always replaced by the next big headline.

There are pragmatic as well as moral grounds for the United States to follow Germany's lead [in dealing with it's past human rights crimes]. American media may have largely ignored the reasons we decided to destroy Hiroshima or oust the democratically elected governments in Iran or the Congo. Other nations' media has not. Few Americans are quite aware of how little credibility we retain in other parts of the world.

almost every face and every voice and scrap of language in this world rises up through a screen or wire like something coming to the surface from the bottom of a lake, or on the other side of some mirrored glass where you can't quite touch it.

In 1921, actor Fatty Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of an aspiring actress named Virginia Rappe, who had been drunk and injecting morphine at the time of her murder.

Don't let an outside influence, especially one as powerful as the media, direct your energies to the wrong place.

In Albert Einstein's words, "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

A good 2,000 to 5,000 times a week, we receive images of bodies enhanced by digital manipulation. These images convey an idea of a body which does not exist in the real world.

We experience the wish for more perfect bodies as our own desire, as indeed it is, yet it is hard to separate out the ways bodies are seen, talked about and written about and the effect of that on our own personal perception of our own bodies and other bodies.

our visual world is being transformed through an intensification of images which represent the body and parts of the body in ways that artfully convey a sense that are own bodies are seriously in need of reshaping and updating.

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, What is?

Una última vez? ¿Para la audiencia? —me dice, no en tono enfadado, sino hueco, lo que es mucho peor. El chico del pan empieza a alejarse de mí. Lo cojo de la mano con fuerza, preparándome para las cámaras y temiendo el momento en que no me quede más remedio que dejarlo marchar.

way the Capitol shows it on television, but there's next to no life aboveground. In the seventy-five

Instead,I watched myself get shot on tv

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

It is our sincere hope that this book helps support Americans who don't believe women in this country are oppressed, who know government is not the solution to women's problems, who don't believe marriage and motherhood are outdated institutions, who think men are as important as women, who think gender roles are good and exist for a reason, and who see the mainstream media for who they are.

Non metterti a fare la parte della principessa sdegnata, la criticò Zaira. Sai benissimo che queste feste sono tutte uguali. Servono ai padroni di casa per mettersi in vetrina, agli ospiti per mostrare ricchezze lecite e illecite, ai cronisti per riempire i loro giornali che la gente leggerà avidamente.

I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.

Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.