Quotes About Media

la televisión condiciona fuertemente el proceso electoral, ya sea en la elección de los candidatos, bien en su modo de plantear la batalla electoral, o en la forma de ayudar a vencer al vencedor. Además, la televisión condiciona, o puede condicionar, fuertemente el gobierno, es decir, las decisiones del gobierno: lo que un gobierno puede y no puede hacer, o decidir lo que va a hacer.

Es cierto que la televisión, a diferencia de los instrumentos de comunicación que la han precedido (hasta la radio), destruye más saber y más entendimiento del que transmite.

La televisión produce imágenes y anula los conceptos, y de este modo atrofia nuestra capacidad de abstracción y con ella toda nuestra capacidad de entender.

A]ber auf einmal gerät einer von ihnen ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit, wird zum Symbol, zur Ikone. Warum? Aus vielerlei Gründen: durch die Art und Weise, wie Medien ihre Nachrichten auswählen und verbreiten, weil Menschen das Bedürfnis haben, das Gute, das sie in sich fühlen, auf etwas zu richten, an das es sich zu glauben lohnt, und dafür auch auf die Straße zu gehen.

Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n'y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d'hériter du sceptre et qui n'avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.

Fazíamos uma televisão bárbara e vulgar, como pretende a natureza desse meio de comunicação.

It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina!

The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze.

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows...

Thomas Paine was kind of the oh, I don't know. My apologies to Thomas Paine, but kind of the me of the genera I mean, I can't think of anybody else. A guy just saying, "Hey, really, stand up. Come on. We can do it." He was kind of the he was the media guy, really. He just did pamphlets, the rest of us just do TV.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

What has changed in modern times, however, is that the media, the so-called fourth estate made up of America's best and brightest journalists, are no longer trusted. Sadly that leaves the American people with no one to rely on: not the politicians; not the media. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but political systems abhor a vacuum of trust even more. If we don't find someone to fill it, someone who can unify the country behind the truth, then that vacuum will be filled for us.

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

US journalists, for years overwhelmingly enamored of Barack Obama, were now commonly speaking of him in these terms: as some sort of grave menace to press freedoms, the most repressive leader in this regard since Richard Nixon. That was quite a remarkable turn for a politician who was ushered into power vowing "the most transparent administration in US history.

the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.

Your personal life is now known as Facebook's data. Its CEO's personal life is now known as mind your own business.

Time magazine's Jay Carney and Richard Stengel are now in government while Obama aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are commentators on MSNBC.

The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.

The perceptions and pronouncements of human beings are inherently subjective. Every news article is the product of all sorts of highly subjective cultural, nationalistic, and political assumptions. And all journalism serves one faction's interest or another's. The

The very idea that reporters should be free of opinions is far from some time-honored requirement of the profession; in fact, it is a relatively new concoction that has the effect, if not the intent, to neuter journalism. This

Snowden had been clear from our first conversation about his rationale for distrusting the establishment media with his story, repeatedly referring to the New York Times's concealment of NSA eavesdropping. He had come to believe that the paper's concealment of that information may very well have changed the outcome of the 2004 election. "Hiding that story changed history," he said.

He had come to believe that the paper's concealment of that information may very well have changed the outcome of the 2004 election. "Hiding that story changed history," he said.

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.