Quotes About Media

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

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.

Parsimonious by nature, the "aged spinster" (as the newspapers would soon be describing her)

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on

daily bombardment of idiocy

That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

Just because Oprah said it, that doesn't make it true.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Even natural wonders aren't what they used to be, because nothing can be experienced without commentary. In the 1950s, we worried about how TV would affect our culture. Now our entire lives are a terrible talk show that we can't turn off. It often feels like we're struggling to find ourselves and each other in a crowded, noisy room. We are plagued, around the clock, by the shouting and confusion and fake intimacy of the global community, mid-nervous breakdown.

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

I am waiting for a reconstructed Mayflower to reach America with its picture story and tv rights sold in advance to the natives

Everybody has their field. My field is the multiple murderer.

the candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover

Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

Cable TV was also born of a kind of piracy. When

If "piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if "if value, then right" is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of "big media" today- film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of a kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation's pirates join this generation's country club-until now.

The real power in Ottawa, as in Washington, is in the executive branch. At the White House, there are daily briefings for reporters. In Ottawa, there is no such daily access. The media doesn't demand it, and as a result, major powerbrokers remain virtually anonymous.

Attempts to thwart or muzzle the media continued as well. At a conservative caucus meeting in Charlottetown in August 2007, journalists assembled in the lobby of the hotel, as they usually do at such gatherings, to talk to caucus members as they passed by. The [Prime Minister's Office] communications team, however, was not prepared to allow it. Taking their cue, or so it appeared, from a police state, they had the RCMP remove the reporters from the hotel.