Quotes About Media

Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.

On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality.

Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

And I was angry because the media took racism seriously - or pretended to - but with sexism, they rarely bothered even to pretend.

In many languages, even the word for human being is "one who goes on migrations." Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

The media are not reality; reality is reality.

Also reporters kept asking Ferraro if a woman could be "tough enough" to "push the button," meaning declare a war, though they didn't ask male candidates if they could be wise enough not to.

This was a small taste of a general problem: the invisibility in the media of the many women of color who pioneered the women's movement.

Progress itself is rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren't written.

Only conflict is news, and

Only later did the media begin to take extremist groups seriously. By then they had committed racist murders in several cities— starting with the liberal Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, who was shot down in his driveway by a white nationalist group—then also bombing a government building in Oklahoma City, shooting Jewish children in a child care center in Los Angeles, and attempting to bomb a Martin Luther King parade in Spokane.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

...all histories, which are a kind of distilled newspapers...

Something's happening to this country. We're going to go immoral. And television is doing it.

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, but that's normal, because a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

The people who run the mass media and those who consume it are really in the same boat. They must continue to produce things they do not really admire, still less love, in order to continue buying things they do not really want, still less need. If we were dealing only with fintails, two-tone cars, or programs like Gunsmoke, the situation would not be so grave. The trouble is that serious things are handled (and received) with the same essential lack of seriousness.

they set out to acquire—steal—our industrial secrets. "Curiously our free-world media fail dismally to point out that all Soviet advances are based originally on one of our stolen inventions or techniques, that without our grain they starve, and without our vast and ever-growing financial assistance and credits to buy our grains and technology they cannot fuel and refuel their whole military-industrial infrastructure which keeps their empire and people enthralled.

The system worked because America was yet to buck race riots and assassinations and environmental bullshit and gender confusion and drug proliferation and gun mania and religious psychoses linked to a media implosion and an emerging cult of victimhood—a 25-year transit of divisive bad juju that resulted in a stultifying mass skepticism.