Quotes About Media

Newsmen have a very short attention span. It is a prerequisite in the business. That is why the news accounts of almost anything make sense to all ages up to the age of twelve. If one wishes to enjoy newspapers, it is wise to halt all intellectual development right at that age. The schools are doing their level best to achieve this goal.

Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion.

Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you?

The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought.

Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you? Martin

Americans consume something like 10 hours of media a day,3over 100,000 words and 34 gigabytes—which would crash a laptop in a week.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

we have become a nation of ten-minute celebrities. People, issues and causes hit the charts like rock groups, and with approximately as much staying power.

If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.

Why bother with a trial? If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.

Newspapers play up as sensational every attempt by a Negro to rape a white woman. Yet this white rape of Negro women is apparently a different matter. But it is rape nonetheless, and practiced on a scale that dwarfs the Negro's defaults. The

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

MADE FOR TELEVISION.

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture-- for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden. It is as witness to the butchery of heroes in their prime-- and of all holy-seeming innocents-- that televisions achieves its deplorable greatness.

It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine. (on Tom Wolfe)

the public entertainment of any period distinguishing the period as clearly as its so-called politics

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

We insult her everyday on TV And wonder why she has no guts or confidence When she's young we kill her will to be free While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than the average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. SAMUEL GOLDWYN

And then you've got a media ready to package that, because it takes away from the political content of them songs. Suddenly there's not a real serious social message, there's just a drug addict. I

But as horrific as the disease itself was, public officials and the media helped create that terror—not by exaggerating the disease but by minimizing it, by trying to reassure.