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Quotes About Media

In every instance that I have known of with confrontation with the government and the press, the press was always right. So keep it up.
~ Jimmy Carter
There were, early on, certain aspects of this case that seemed not well handled by the police and prosecutors, and others that seemed not well handled by the press.
~ Joan Didion
Gandhi on Nonviolence, Louis Fischer's Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Jerome Frank's Breaking the Thought Barrier, Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, Krishnamurti's The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite, Huxley's Ends and Means, and Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media.
~ Joan Didion
their reading: Gandhi on Nonviolence, Louis Fischer's Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Jerome Frank's Breaking the Thought Barrier, Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, Krishnamurti's The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite, Huxley's Ends and Means, and Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. On the fifth day
~ Joan Didion
The words "USA Today" were heard quite a bit during the first few months of the new, faster format, as were "New Coke" and "Michael Dukakis".
~ Joan Didion
the favored victim in the tabloid headline . . . was young, white, middle class and 'attractive'.
~ Joan Didion
Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
~ Joanne Harris
No job is complete until the selfie is posted.
~ Ashok Kallarakkal
My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.
~ Anwar Hadid
You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.
~ Ruth Rendell
I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie that language doesn't work for me.
~ James Gunn
Everyone seems to suck at communication these days even though we are constantly staring at the devices originally made for communication...
~ Unknown
Your Facebook friends are praying for you to give up Facebook for Lent.
~ Unknown
Facebook should have a relationship status saying; 'Friends with benefits' since that's all anyone is anymore.
~ Unknown
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
~ Kate Adie
Use social media to impact people, Not to impress people.
~ Unknown
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
~ Unknown
The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.
~ James Nathan Miller
I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
~ Walter Lippmann
Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn't conscious; it's Pavlovian. (13)
~ Victoria Moran
The Times Group had already sued to prevent Arnab from using his catchphrase, 'The nation wants to know'.
~ Unknown
I fear there are many editors and newspapermen who will bear a heavy responsibility for what happens in our country.
~ Unknown
Everyone now knows that marriage is not the only route to fulfillment, but the media and the internet tell of more lonely hearts and solitary singles than ever before.
~ Unknown
When the collective unconscious -- via instruments of power such as the media and the entertainment industry -- overestimates motherhood, it is neither out of love for the feminine nor general kindness. The all-virtuous mother prepares the collective body for fascist regression. Power bestowed by a sick state is suspect by nature.
~ Virginie Despentes