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Quotes About Media

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.
~ Mathias Dopfner
The future of American film lies on television.
~ David Hare
For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
~ Will McDonough
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
~ Andy Warhol
I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.
~ Gwen Ifill
Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.
~ Beth Mowins
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
~ Lev Grossman
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They dont know theyre being funny.
~ Stephen Colbert
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission
~ Fred Allen
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
~ Jim Bishop
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
~ Joseph Priestley
There are now more TV's in British households than there are people - which is a bit of a worry.
~ Prince Charles
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
~ Groucho Marx
Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.
~ Richard Nixon
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood -- Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
~ Goldie Hawn
Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling you, this guy is presidential material.
~ Unknown
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
~ Alfred Hitchcock