Quotes About Media

Well, when the Enquirer becomes your standard for living, you're in a lot of trouble! When

Who's more famous than Debbie [Reynolds] and Eddie [Fisher]? C-3PO and Darth Vader.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

The newspaper was always behind the news, not in front. You shouldn't ever go to the papers for information. They usually printed what they thought people wanted to see, and they had no explanation to give. It wasn't the king they saw. That wasn't the king at all. It was the king's shadow.

Government is weaker today because the public it serves is quicker to anger, and because the Opposition has realised the safest way back to power is opposition, not policy renewal. No mandate need be respected because the Opposition can trust the media to set impossible standards for government to meet. p237

5. Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still really young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. 6. Television puts a stop to crime because all the burglars and robbers, instead of going to burgle and rob, sit at home watching The Lone Ranger, Emergency Ward Ten and Dotto .

It may be a sad commentary, but it is a fact that many people equate political campaigns with television advertising. If you're on the air, you're campaigning; if you're not on the air, you're nowhere. Just days after the first ad appeared, several people I encountered commented on it.

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere.

About arrows - "They prick, cajole, exhort, sell, direct; and there is no way of measuring the amount of brain damage they do. It comes for free, however, like air pollution, Muzak in elevators, and the gentle sound of police sirens.

They used to advise young men to avoid gambling, drink, and women. And they were probably right in their time. But the single most important thing in the world today is not to read The New Yorker.

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.

The media is starting to understand that people will "buy" what they want to hear. That explains the growing popularity of MSNBC among liberals and FOX News among conservatives. They are the "Infonewtials" of the modern era.

In the networked world, there are fewer Eleanor Rigbys to sing about, for

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

we will face a day, not long from now, when all of our information comes from digital sources, meaning that rumors and untruths can spread even more quickly than before.

He is arguably the most well-informed man in the world, yet he rarely reads newspapers.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free diets. You are the superstitious ones. You convince yourself you can cheat death, and you are absolutely offended when you learn that you can't. You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee.

You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee." I flinched when he said that. It was a pretty accurate description.