Quotes About Media

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

The media do strange things.

With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.

I had told Debina that I'd make our marriage official only when I could afford a home for her. Strangely, the media never got to know. Only our very close friends knew, not our family.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.

With 'Stranger Things' especially, I couldn't expect the show to become what it was, and I definitely didn't expect the whole Barb thing to become what it was.

In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies.

As a Muslim, I like to watch Fox News for the same reason I like to play 'Call of Duty.' Sometimes, I like to turn my brain off and watch strangers insult my family and heritage.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

For too long Ukraine, the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, was one of the continent's most under-reported places. For most of the last century, what little reporting in the foreign press there was, was done in the main by foreign correspondents living in Moscow, who inevitably absorbed some of the imperial and then former imperial capital's patronizing attitudes.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

mix in your mind diet: 25 percent media, 50 percent books, and the remaining 25 percent social and workstream (offline and online).

He saw "new propaganda" emerging, and he said its goal was "not to convince or persuade, but to keep the viewer hooked and distracted, passive and paranoid." RT, which received more than $1 billion a year from the Kremlin, began to fine-tune its English-language shows, targeting the fringes of the American political spectrum on the right and the left.

As a report released by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee put it, the Russians sought to "blur the lines between reality and fiction, erode our trust in media entities and the information environment, in government, in each other, and in democracy itself." It took years before Americans understood this.

Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.

Without exception, the brave new technologies of the twentieth century—free use of which was originally encouraged, for the sake of further invention and individual expression—eventually evolved into privately controlled industrial behemoths, the "old media" giants of the twenty-first, through which the flow and nature of content would be strictly controlled for reasons of commerce.

the mogul makes the medium: the imprint of the personality inevitably informs it, often no less than the technology underlying it. Turner

Broadcasters are also selling a product-their audiences.

while television is supposed to be free, it has in fact become the creature, the servant, and indeed the prostitute, of merchandising.