Quotes About Media

We are morally adrift, spiritually bankrupt, enamored with the ever-growing catalog of false idols that is consumerism, politically gullible, rage-drunk, media fattened, and ripe for a culling at the hands of one tragedy or another that will no doubt rip the golden dome of American life off its rotten foundations.

Civilians is one term journalists use to describe non-journalists. Another is laypeople. Or normals.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

Simply put, we have more people talking about news and less original reporting. Whether on television or online, there is no shortage of analysis. But analysis is only as good as the information that supports it. The deep cuts to newsrooms in print and electronic media have resulted in far fewer reporters waking up each morning deciding what story they will chase. There is less investigative reporting ....

Much has been written about how tribal we are getting. We see it in our social media feeds, and it is reflected in the increased polarization of our political parties along geographic and social divisions.

Simply put, we have more people talking about news and less original reporting.

Do not let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Fox News portrayed itself as a full-fledged news outlet that was a corrective to the liberal press. There are some fine journalists who have worked and continue to work at Fox News. But the majority of programming is opinion rather than news, and this opinion is often in service of conservative political objectives regardless of the facts.

youtube has been told to get rid of anything that disputes the official narrative of total lies

BBC to axe 450 newsroom jobs... That's because all mainstream media again, they are all repiping the same power structure information and propaganda. So they don't need reporters...

Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.

Anyone else tired of how media eats your brain?

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

McKinsey Global Institute estimates that the typical American hears or reads more than one hundred thousand words every day.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

A pseudo-event… comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.