Quotes About Media

As California senator Hiram Johnson said in 1917, "The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

Fake is the new trend and everyone seems to be be in style.

I hate when people do that desperate act just for attention.

Fake is the lastest trend and everyone seems to be in style!

I swear, if Facebook changes their layout one more time, I'm going to post a status update about it & then use their site as much as always.

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.

You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can give them something to talk about.