Quotes About Media

Becoming real simply because he'd appeared on a few thousand TV screens. Growing up with a sense that media events were real, and personal events were not. Anything that didn't happen on television didn't happen. Even as he hated conventional programming, even as he regarded it as the cud of ruminants, still it defined his sense of personal unreality; and left him unfinished.

I think I want to stick to jewelry. Perfumes are for the bigger media stars, and I think that works well for them. I don't think you have to be a big star to have a jewelry line; if something's pretty, I think people will want to buy it.

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

As is often the case in politics, the truth was less important than public perception.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Only believe half you see and nothing you hear or read Laurence Elliott

They {alien parasites} begin by invading the minds of individuals in government, military, medicine, finance, media, education, academia, secret societies and religion. They give these individuals what is essentially a computer virus. From these foxholes, they launch their spiritual warfare against the general population and against specific individuals.

Politics may one day be found to be so vulgar as to be described, along with all party and daily journalism, under the heading: 'Prostitution of the Intel lect'.

He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that "in spite of everything" this was an acceptable world simply because it existed. It would never become acceptable. Beloved maybe, acceptable never.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

In a curious twist, I realize I always knew TV news seemed full of shit, but I never knew it was, in fact, full of shit.

The apparent objectivity of written words explains why people tend to believe what they read more than what they hear

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

...the devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.

If it's called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? BAM. Busted!

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad... Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three... We are dominated by Journalism.

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.

Radio is for those not famous, or infamous, enough to make The Tube.