Quotes About Media

Dizem com frequência que a pornografia aumenta o número de estupros. Hipócrita e absurdo. Como se a agressão sexual fosse uma invenção recente, e como se tivesse sido introduzida em nossos espíritos através dos filmes.

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

Read a minimum of four good books a year, a monthly magazine like The Reader's Digest, and your daily morning and evening newspapers.

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. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.

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.

Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.

If you want romance, fuck a journalist.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

It was great for me getting a chance to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.