Quotes About Media

news media are either propaganda organs or desperately afraid of declaring, in any straightforward way, that politicians are wrong, no matter how much what they say is at odds with the truth.

The answer, I submit, is that the G.O.P. is an authoritarian regime in waiting. Trump himself clearly has the same instincts as the foreign dictators he so openly admires. He demands that public officials be loyal to him personally, not to the American people. He threatens political opponents with retribution—two years after the last election, he's still leading chants of "Lock her up." He attacks the news media as enemies of the people.

On the other hand, we should never discount the power of dishonesty. Right-wing media will portray whomever the Democrats nominate for president as the second coming of Leon Trotsky, and millions of people will believe them. Let's just hope that the rest of the media report the clean little secret of American socialism, which is that it isn't radical at all.

The picture says that what we heard and were told in the newspapers, the media, was not the real story. There's enough doubt in the official story, where the stories were absolutely not consistent with what happened. They paint a different picture than the one that was given to the media.

A parallel system is that of the military-industrial-media complex, along with the more distant politico-media complex and prison-industrial complex.

though the journalists who have done so have paid a heavy price, being targeted by the cartels.

The writing profession that I have always known is changing, old media is ossified, and what I know of new media is that it is casual, opinionated, improvisational, largely unedited, full of whoppers, often plagiarized, and poorly paid.

The achievement of star status itself would seem to be based not on talent or good looks any more, but on the risks taken for the camera by a whole host of stuntmen brought in from the fairgrounds and circuses: trick riding, controlled falls, suspended accidents and suicidal exploits, leading, with the coming of 'live' transmission, to the 'confessional' TV programme, to the so-called reality show, which shades over, at the edges, into the snuff movie.

All TV is educational. The question is, 'What are we teaching?

Young women today are sold the idea that sexiness is the same as sexuality, that being desirable is more important than understanding their own desires.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.