Quotes About Media

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

Everyone is struggling to compete with how people consume television these days.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

I think people get stuck in a cycle with social media sometimes and don't know how to make adjustments that are personal.

I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that it can come across as disingenuous. But you take these things on board, and you hope you mean it whenever you get stuck into something.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul?

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.

I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

A lot of crap goes on in media studies, like in almost everything.

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

I'm an international studies major. I've been a reporter. I was always interested in media, but I just didn't know specifically what.

I did a degree in media and culture studies in London and moved there when I was eighteen from Paris.

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'