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Quotes About Media

Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.
~ John Reeves
Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
~ C. P. Scott
When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
~ Newton Minow
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
~ Lee Loevinger
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
~ Clive Barnes
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
~ Art Buchwald
Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.
~ Noel Coward
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
~ David Frost
The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.
~ C. L. Gray
The mike is mightier than the pen or the sword.
~ Dick Gregory, 1960s
No party in the US can hope to rule without the support of Jewish money and Jewish power in the media and academia.
~ Israel Shamir
Roarke had to force himself not to snatch her up as she swept through the hallowed Senate halls. Members of the media were already leaping toward her, but she cut through them as if they weren't there. "I like your style, Lieutenant Dallas," he said when they'd fought their way to the car. "I like it a lot. And by the way, I don't think I'm in love with you anymore. I know I am.
~ J.D. Robb
I expected to have some tags from reporters, but I'm clear there so far. I've had all inquiries from media rerouted to my office. She narrowed her eyes You can do that? I can. Why don't you always do that?
~ J.D. Robb
In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.
~ J.D. Robb
Channel 75's sleek silver building. It had been constructed in the mid-twenties when the media boom had hit such astronomical proportions as to generate more profits than a small country.
~ J.D. Robb
The media's no more objective than the last ratings term.
~ J.D. Robb
if you gave the media any part of yourself, it squeezed it, twisted it, and wrung it dry.
~ J.D. Robb
Obwohl diese afrikanischen Militärbanden oft nicht größer oder mächtiger sind als die organisierten kriminellen Banden in Asien oder Osteuropa, wird über ihre Aktivitäten in den Medien - sogar in den westlichen Medien - unter der Rubrik Politik (Geschehen aus aller Welt) respektvoll berichtet, statt unter der Rubrik Verbrechen.
~ J.M. Coetzee
In large measure, his clientele were millennials, that generation born between 1980 and 2000. Defined by the Internet, the iPhone, and a lack of economic opportunity, at least according to the human media, they were a demographic of lost moralists, committed to saving each other, preserving the rights of everyone, and championing a false utopia of mandated liberal thinking that made McCarthyism looked nuanced.
~ J.R. Ward
The Clinton era was a turning point in the history of journalism.
~ Jack Cashill
How many serial killer stories does one nation need? Give me hero stories any day.
~ Jack Cavanaugh
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land but the newspapers preen in virtue - Throughout the world the left & right the east & west, are both vicious
~ Jack Kerouac
The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it.
~ Jack London