Quotes About Media

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

Therapists hear horrifying stories of child abuse that never make the headlines. The media seem drawn to stories about children who die, as if the suffering of those who survive is any less terrifying.

The Post articles consistently referred to me as "he," "Jorgensen," or "the Bronx man," as though I were some anthropological missing link.

Never once, in all those acres of newsprint, had I been asked about my faiths and beliefs, both of which had played important roles in my life. What I slept in, apparently, was considered more important than what I believed in.

I realize, of course, that selling newspapers is a business, and that gathering news and presenting it truthfully must be a difficult and competitive task. However, in a story of a highly controversial nature, some newsmen are prone to alter facts and present them in an exciting, provocative way to a panting public, without always following the unvarnished truth.

It seems to me now a shocking commentary on the press of our time that I pushed the hydrogen-bomb tests on Eniwetok right off the front pages. A tragic war was still raging in Korea, George VI had died and Britain had a new queen, sophisticated guided missiles were going off in New Mexico, Jonas Salk was working on a vaccine for infantile paralysis...Christine Jorgensen was on page one.

The unusual, especially in sexual anomalies, is what the public wants to read with breakfast coffee.

I'd remained the subject of a TV boycott by the executives in the industry, though why they felt I was to be shrouded from the general public is still unclear. No doubt they felt that all sexual realities (other than exaggerated bust lines), should remain concealed, though they seem to have had no such hesitation about showing violence, murder, dope addiction, and infidelity on the home screens.

Like Janus, the press has presented two faces: one detrimental and one advantageous.

The New York Enquirer, a journalistic monstrosity that specializes in epic squalor. Incredibly, this monument to obscenity continues to appear on newsstands week after week.

The "Sea of Lies" article in Newsweek (July

You see? This is what's wrong with the world. A young lady with bleached hair, an estuarine accent and unfeasible breasts can outsell a respected expert with decades of wisdom and experience." "She's human interest," replied May.. "You're not. People reading her story will feel that if she can make it without talent, maybe they can.

Millions of people around the world learned to speak English as a second or third language, or sixth, and fluently. He'd always thought they envied his country, maybe wanted to live there, but now he wondered if they just liked English-language movies and TV shows. And maybe, just maybe, they learned English because most English speakers were too lazy or arrogant to become proficient in other languages.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to.

You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive

Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooose.

Proof of the power of the press is the fear of the press by the government. Martha Gellhorn as quoted by Helen Thomas

It's become the incredible shrinking presidency in terms of access, and in my opinion, we are all being shortchanged.

Several studies have shown that spending as little as three minutes looking fashion magazines causes as many as 70 percent of women to feel depressed and guilty about their appearance. There

It's as if the media is saying to teenage girls, "Remember all those kid TV shows you used to watch that told you you could be any way you want to be and become anything you want to become? We were just kidding. You can be a lawyer, a scientist, or whatever, but what's most important is that you look gorgeous, act simpering, and fall in love with a confident, good-looking hunk." A

It was a modern massacre: urban in origin, driven by ideology, fueled by the press, and abetted by politicians from afar.

Print could be wielded by the purveyors of prejudice as well as by the combatants for civilization