Quotes About Media

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

Journalism is organized gossip.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer...Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

reading the Guardian makes you morose compared with the Telegraph. Maybe

Habla de Compromisos, de Responsabilidades, de Valentías, de Desafíos, del Buen Sentido, de la Integridad, de la Grandeza, es decir, de cosas de las que en la Sociedad Mediática Actual no se habla en forma alguna porque intentar elevar constantemente el nivel de exigencia del ser humano se ha convertido en una ofensa grave a la condición humana. Hay demasiada gente que coloca el nivel de exigencia a ras de suelo "; pag. 12.

Time was, you were pretty sure that the best food was the kind that was the easiest to find. Or the kind you consume at a stadium, with a game going on in front of you. This was before everyone watched the Food Network and Top Chef and the sadistic reality shows hosted by that angry British chef who screams at his "cheftestants" until the veins in his neck bulge and his shrinking victims either cry or go to the hospital with heart troubles. Well, my friend, the game has changed.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things.

The old bit about only believing half of what you see and none of what you read no longer applies. The American people believe everything they see on the TV and those that do read, believe all of what's in print. `It has to be true otherwise they wouldn't print it?

And it should not come as no shock that Big Food, along with the pharmaceutical industry and its scientists for hire, has promoted confusion in the media and in the mind of the American consumer to contribute to our culture of overconsumption.

Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.