Quotes About Media

'Bridgerton' is actually delivering on changing the bar, and the standard, of representation.

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

We are living in a world where image is important and we feel the need to confirm to a standard of what beauty is and how beauty should look like. We look at the billboard, and feel something is lacking in us.

Hoover also loved new media the way Millennials do now. He was the first person to ever appear on television. As commerce secretary, he standardized the radio industry so businesses could harness its commercial value. He didn't e-mail my great-grandmother a marriage proposal - but he did cable her one, all the way from Australia.

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering your standards. Don't buy into that way of thinking. As you watch TV or read magazines, you might be made to feel abnormal when, really, you are the one who has it figured out.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

I have pessimistic moments when I think I should go on a diet because people are paying money to see movies with exceptional-looking actresses. But being in college has helped me realize that the best thing I can do is to feel good about myself and forget about other people's standards.

Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

I think, from a standpoint of editorial, you know, AOL historically has played in a very deep way across many different verticals in the content space. Huffington Post adds a very large new dimension to that.

Oftentimes it feels like Fox stands alone in the media on certain stories.

Sarah Huckabee stands in front of the country and lies every single day.

Why would any woman agree to be on a show called Bridezillas? It's not like men would agree to be on Douchegroom.

The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.