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Quotes About Media

Having invited these performances in the first place, the media justified covering them because they were receiving media attention... The result was to make of modern society one giant Heisenberg effect in which the media were not really reporting what people did; they were reporting what people did to get media attention.
~ Neal Gabler
Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled? Maybe. Or maybe with so much conflicting media, people just shut down. Maybe that's the point.
~ Neal Shusterman
I care, I tell her. Because if there's one thing I know about the news, it's that it decides for most people --including the federal government-- what is and what isn't important.
~ Neal Shusterman
I am unable to comprehend how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
~ Charles Baudelaire
our progenitors, our educational systems, the land, the media, the way have deluded and misled the masses: they have been defeated by the aridity of the actual dream. they were unaware that achievement or victory or luck or whatever the hell you want to call it must have its defeats.
~ Charles Bukowski
I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals.
~ Charles Bukowski
At lunchtime (10:24 p.m.) I went out and bought the L.A. Times.
~ Charles Bukowski
People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.
~ Charles Bukowski
Here in America a man ain't a man unless he's got three or four whores and a late model car. All right, I'm a little drunk. Maybe that's why I mock myself. But put a new car and 3 women on my back and I'm fucked. I don't have a t.v. I don't even have a radio. A big Brazilian cunt who wants to put that thing on me, calls me the last of the monsters.
~ Charles Bukowski
All but a few of those messages of concern to the Senate and much of the commentary in the news media had come from people who held radical beliefs with evangelical passion and would spring ferociously to their defense at the slightest sign that they were being questioned. Hammett knew their minds: Correctness was virtue; belief was personal validity; doctrine was truth. All else was evil.
~ Charles McCarry
Gone were the days when Americans were forced to pick one of three nightly news broadcasts. Now there are so many outlets that we suddenly have the ability to find the source of news that makes us the least uncomfortable.
~ Charles Seife
Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who's never seen a television before. Because it's not a TV. It's a flat-screen PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition. They can't be that dumb. It's got to be a trap, I gibber to myself. Not even the clueless cannon-fodder-in-jumpsuits who staff any one of the movies on the shelf would be that dumb!
~ Charles Stross
It's almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in progress Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or perhaps it's over already, and a ruthless media clamp-down by tongue-eating mind control parasites is the only thing keeping the world from learning about the takeover of DC by gibbering alien nightmares.
~ Charles Stross
It's almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in progress Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or perhaps it's over already, and a ruthless media clamp-down by tongue-eating mind control parasites is the only thing keeping the world from learning about the takeover of DC by gibbering alien nightmares. I
~ Charles Stross
Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media. —JOHN VON NEUMANN
~ Charles Stross
They contained enchanted sigils, providing limited protection against extradimensional brain eaters, zombies, and targeted social media ads.
~ Charles Stross
ELVIS & MARILYN: The deader they get - the more money they make.
~ Chocolate Waters
El vídeo después de la televisión La televisión no es vulgar y lasciva porque la gente que compone la audiencia sea vulgar y lasciva. La televisión es así simplemente porque las personas suelen ser muy similares en sus intereses vulgares y lascivos, y ampliamente diferentes en sus intereses refinados, estéticos y nobles. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
~ Chris Anderson
Then television took over, birthing the ultimate in lockstep culture.
~ Chris Anderson
professional journalists who are seeing their jobs evaporate are typically those whose employers failed to find a new role in a world of abundant information. By and large, that means newspapers, which are an industry that will probably have to reinvent itself as dramatically as music labels. The top tier (the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.) will probably shrink a bit, and the tier below that may be decimated.
~ Chris Anderson
Google is not a media company by any traditional definition of the word, but it makes its billions from the media business model.
~ Chris Anderson
Una manera de considerar la diferencia entre las opciones limitadas de ayer y la abundancia de hoy es imaginar nuestra cultura como un océano en cuya superficie sólo existen islas de popularidad. Hay una isla musical compuesta de álbumes de gran venta, una isla de películas compuesta de éxitos de taquilla, un archipiélago de programas populares de televisión, y así sucesivamente.
~ Chris Anderson
O sea que, ya ve: la maquinaria industrial de los imperios de medios de comunicación más grandes del siglo XX transformada en una cosa que usted puede manejar desde su propio ordenador. Ayer las instalaciones informáticas más grandes del mundo trabajaban para el gobierno, las grandes empresas y los laboratorios de investigación. Hoy trabajan para usted. Esto ha sido lo que ha traído consigo el desktop.
~ Chris Anderson
Elena believed that reportage like that might be compelling and beautiful, but it would never gain traction in the Age of the Troll. In the Age of Mass Shootings. In the Age of the Suicide Bomb in the Crowd.
~ Chris Bohjalian