Quotes About Media

As much as any other producer in the modern movie age, Harvey Weinstein has been a subject of media fascination. The grossness, the bullying, the unbridled exercising of personal power, the craven appetites, the awards and his good taste in films fed that fascination.

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.