Quotes About Media

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

Cut, the journalist says, turning into the camera. Just cut. The Babble Brigade has started up again. The soundtrack now consists of a thousand people speaking in tongues under the high-pitched, shit-eating chuckles of L. Bob Rife. This is the miracle of tongues, Rife shouts above the tumult. I can understand every word these people are saying. Can you, brother?

Hollywood was all about. Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and then marketed that product to death, all over the world, in every conceivable medium. The goal was to find products that would keep on making money forever, long after the talent had been paid off and sent packing.

But the television news cameras couldn't get anywhere near the action, so the coverage mostly consisted of journalists interviewing each other about how little they knew.

And as the number of media grew, the material became more up to date, and the methods for searching the Library became more and more sophisticated, it approached the point where there was no substantive difference between the Library of Congress and the Central Intelligence Agency. Fortuitously, this happened just as the government was falling apart anyway. So they merged and kicked out a big fat stock offering.

Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and then marketed that product to death, all over the world, in every conceivable medium.

We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV—which is sort of an oral tradition.

Basically, anyone who reads the National Enquirer or watches pro wrestling on TV is easy to convert.

The word, in the end, is the only system of encoding thoughts—the only medium—that is not fungible, that refuses to dissolve in the devouring torrent of electronic media.

What's the golden rule of social networking? Luther hangs up his coat. Don't do it?

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

We simply organized the information differently—that's all we did. And the New York Times was making a federal case out of it.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

nodded, "A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Pravda, as you know, means 'truth,' and Izvestia means 'news,' and I've heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.

When we speak of 'populism' today,1 we sometimes mean nothing more than a politics that is audible as well as intelligible to the man in the street Ã¢â'¬â€œ or, to be precise, the man and woman slumped on their sofa, their attention skipping fitfully from flat-screen TV to laptop to smartphone to tablet and back to television, or the man and woman at work, sitting in front of desktop PCs but mostly exchanging suggestive personal messages on their smartphones.

The torrent of verbiage comes about because professional politicians are more concerned with spin than substance, the media never cease to howl for 'something' to be done after every mishap, the lobbyists ensure that the small print protects the vested interests they serve, and the lawyers profit from the whole sorry mess.5

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The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.