Quotes About Media

Any beginning is difficult, but when you're opening the newspaper every day, and it's all about how bad you are, sometimes even you begin to believe that.

We must fight for liberal ideas like openness, but also about having a media that we believe in and that can sort between real news and facts and not-so-factual things.

It is different in Russia. Here there is a television channel devoted to opera and dance.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

Fox is described as a news operation, a news network, but it's also a political operation.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

We have a mantra. 'Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs'.

Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs.

In America the president reigns for 4 years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community

They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame, on the continent.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed

This ignorance of the lives of others is what allows gentrification to happen. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts points out in her book Harlem Is Nowhere that whenever a neighborhood gentrifies, you hear white people and the media using phrases such as "People are starting to move to that neighborhood," or "No one used to go there, but that's changing." The implication is that before these places gentrified, no one lived there, or at least no one of importance.

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

The most dangerous ads, as far as I'm concerned, are the new prescription drug ads, because they teach people to be sick.

And the more sexual images men and women absorb, the more they move from subjective attraction, colored by love and the emotions, to objective attraction, determined by an expertise in the human body that is rarely healthy to acquire. How many women begin to feel that their bodies are inadequate not intrinsically but in comparison to others? Too many.

Television has a satanic influence.

Political correctness is going to kill American liberalism if it is not fought to the death by people like me for the dangers it represents to free speech, to the exchange of ideas, to openheartedness, or to the spirit of art itself. Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry.