Quotes About Media

Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.

As so often during the US military intervention in Iraq between 2003 and 2011, there was excessive focus by the media on the actions of Western governments as the prime mover of events. This was accompanied by an inadequate understanding of the significance of developments on the ground in Iraq and Syria as the force really driving the crisis in both countries.

Yet today, from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment media, from confession and controversy, from legend and ritual—Jesus stands quietly at the center of the contemporary world, as he himself predicted. He so graced the ugly instrument on which he died that the cross has become the most widely exhibited and recognized symbol on earth.

Consider a daily newspaper or television newscast and eliminate from it every report that presupposes a breaking of one of the Ten Commandments. Very little will be left.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

Media is the right arm of anarchy

the world has become a reality TV show.

You're supposed to report the news, she grumbled. Not spread vicious rumors in the form of questions. Martín had always believed in the importance of responsible journalism as a cornerstone of freedom and democracy, and so she was routinely disappointed by journalists who incited controversy by broadcasting ideas that were patently absurd—all the while avoiding legal repercussions by simply turning every ludicrous statement into a leading question.

I estimate that some two hundred million people are following this story through online news reports, social media, television, and radio.

the minister would say something like: "We come from God and we're going to God," and the biologist would respond, "We evolved from apes and we're going extinct." They will prove nothing except that we viewers will watch anything if it's sufficiently hyped.

Hoy en día las noticias falsas tienen tanto peso como las verdaderas".

siempre había creído en la importancia del periodismo responsable y lo consideraba un auténtico pilar de la libertad y la democracia, de modo que a menudo se sentía decepcionada por los periodistas que fomentaban la controversia al difundir ideas que eran descaradamente absurdas (evitando las posibles repercusiones legales al formular cada una de sus ridículas declaraciones como una pregunta).

Fake news now carries as much weight as real news. - Diego Garza

had a television set until I sold it at the height of the Vietnam War. Those sanitized snippets of death—made distant by the camera's lens—meant nothing to me. But I believe it meant something to these cattle which surround me. When the war and the nightly televised body counts ended, they demanded more, more, and the movie screens and streets of this sweet and dying nation have provided it in mediocre, mob abundance. It is an addiction I know well.

Faction is a dangerous thing—presenting readers, viewers, and listeners with a fictitious account and making them think that it is true.

Farbigkeit und dieselbe Anziehungskraft herrschen kann wie in einem Bericht von Schandtaten. Wenn diese Annahme einigen Grund haben soll, so muß mir auch verstattet

Television, as the poet T. S. Eliot warned in 1963, when the then-new medium was spreading into homes, "permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

When in our schools the study of current events (that is, of what is reported in the newspapers) displaces the facts of history, it is inevitable that the standard of knowledge propagated by newspapers and magazines and television networks themselves (that is, whether one is up on what is reported in the newspapers, magazines, and television) overshadows all others. When to be informed is to knowledgeable about pseudo-events, the line between knowledge and ignorance is blurred as never before.

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

Long time ago I used to have a life, until someone told me to create a Facebook account.

I made my Facebook name "Benefits," so when you add me now it says "you're friends with benefits."

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.