Quotes About Media

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.

Trovo la televisione molto educativa. Ogni volta che qualcuno la accende, vado in biblioteca e leggo un buon libro.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Who says Television isn't educational, as soon as the T.V. comes on I read a book.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Dengan semua TV, konsol permainan, komputer, dan ponsel di masa kini, layar dan jejaring menyerbu kehidupan kita sejak usia dini–dan membuat kita menjadi lebih buruk daripada lebih baik. [P. 199]

Una columna en el periódico, o un titular de portada, a veces influye más en el estado de ánimo de los jugadores que mi propia opinión. Así que tengo que ver qué titulares han sido publicados acerca de un jugador, y si tengo dos estrellas y hay tres titulares sobre uno de ellos, tendré que hablar con el jugador al que no le han dedicado ninguno.

he explained that elements of his behaviour in front of the media were a necessary evil: a vital cog in the psychological machinery that he used to win football matches.

There was certainly an improvement and any dissent or unrest was external – in the media and on radio phone-ins – rather than inside the dressing room. Some reactionary pundits even called for Pep's head.

The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.

The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

The newspapers of today chronicle with degrading avidity the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatever. I must give them up.

In the class structure of this country, the role of Latino people is to build the movie set of white perfection again and again.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

On Facebook, I want to change my name to Nobody so when someone posts something really stupid, I can like their post and it will say... Nobody likes this.

The world lives in a sort of fantasy were everything is supposed to look and be a certain way compared to a standard set by fake magazines, fake tv, fake media of all sorts. We've been completely brainwashed in this way and well this is exactly what happens in the "real" world, and it's only seen by "real" people who haven't been fooled.

Funny the way those newspaper men veer about when they get wind of a new opening. Weathercocks. Hot and cold in the same breath. Wouldn't know which to believe. One story good till you hear the next. Go for one another baldheaded in the papers and then all blows over. Hail fellow well met the next moment.

There is a subculture in this country that seems to have no antecedent—a conflation of reality television, National Enquirer journalism, fundamentalist religion, militarism, and professional football. At the center is an adoration of celebrity, no matter how it is acquired or in what form it comes. Women

This your brain. This is your brain on Facebook. Any questions?

We're just not cut out for all this media circus crap. But then, you already knew that.