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Quotes About Media

In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
~ Ben Hecht
Television has an unparalleled reach.
~ Vikrant Massey
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
~ Robert Fisk
The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
~ Barbara Broccoli
Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
~ Yair Lapid
The newspapers are always reminding the public that I am an unpopular prime minister.
~ Ehud Olmert
I am thrilled and proud of Benjamin Watson for speaking up on behalf of innocent black lives, traditionally an unpopular stance in the mainstream media.
~ Burgess Owens
It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of information, and punishing anyone who stands in the way. But, at least theoretically speaking, it is the job of journalists to impede that effort, not to serve and enable it.
~ Glenn Greenwald
It's understandable that when something new comes out that's unfamiliar, scary, and has severe outcomes, it gets a lot of media attention. In fact, the Zika outbreak is unprecedented. We've never before identified a mosquito-borne infection that can cause fetal malformations.
~ Tom Frieden
Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
~ Alexis Ohanian
Whether it's intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.
~ Jason Kander
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
~ J. G. Ballard
Donald Trump - you can say a lot of negative things about him, and I do, and I think he's completely unprepared for the office, and he lacks the fabric to lead this nation, but if there's one thing that he understands, it's branding and how to navigate the media.
~ Michael Avenatti
Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
~ Amanda Palmer
'UnREAL' has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.
~ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
I watched some shows like 'The Simple Life' and 'The Anna Nicole Smith Show,' but I hadn't really watched 'The Bachelor' until I was cast on 'UnReal.'
~ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
~ Gail Simmons
Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.
~ John J. McLaughlin
Retouching is an incredible tool but can also create unrealistic expectations for women who don't understand that an image is not how the subject really looks. Even the subjects themselves can't live up to their retouched images.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
~ Kate Beckinsale
Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
~ Bret Stephens
A lot of times, gay characters are represented in unrealistic or stereotypical ways.
~ Shannon Purser
We all hate on ourselves way too much, and there are so many people who think they have to look like those women on TV. That's so unreasonable. Everybody is supposed to be a different size. And if I can just be confident in myself, then I'll look better. It's quantum physics!
~ Lisa Ann Walter
There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.
~ Gavin Esler