Quotes About Media

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

We are choked with News and starved of History.

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time.

I don't as a rule hold much of a brief for television. In my experience, all too often it bowdlerises as much as popularises.

But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a world where gossip passes for news, and sensationalism passes for journalism. - Christina McCall

There were three PROs looking after us – a measure of how the army and the mass media were now coexisting and being mutually supportive.

More enraged men have become less patient with neoliberal trade agreements; more belligerent in their critiques of feminism, Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, academics, homosexuals, and the media; and more prepared to nudge the neoliberal side of the old machine consolidated in the early 1980s toward aspirational fascism.

We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity

The pop star, as we knew her – and here he bowed slightly, in her direction – was actually an artefact of preubiquitous media. Of -? Of a state in which 'mass' media existed, if you will, within the world. As opposed to? Comprising it.

Whenever the media do try to pick it up, it slides like a lone noodle from their chopsticks.

Reality television. It merged with politics. Then with performance art." They walked on. "I think that already happened, back home

The Fanta has a nasty, synthetic edge. She wonders why she bought it. The tabloid doesn't go down any better, seemingly composed in equal measure of shame and rage, as though some inflamed national subtext were being ritually, painfully massaged, for whatever temporary and paradoxical relief this might afford.

There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is inately media-related.

Big contrast: While the foreign media are obsessed with Apocalypses, the Japanese people are already talking of rebuilding.

media'?" "I guess so." "It was an artifact of relatively low connectivity.