Quotes About Media

there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

Modern conflict is as much about conditioning public opinion as any other strategy in the war against terror.

Q: I'm in the fact business, Chief. I avoid the news and opinion channels.

Westerners who've never traveled abroad don't realize the extent to which American movies and actors, and Hollywood imagery, dominate overseas cinemas and markets.

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Once the basic principals of 'need to know' are understood, together with the resulting manipulation of information, it is easy to observe this process in action – indeed every day, via our media, we are led by the nose along the 'required' path and we generally go quietly, because we have been well trained.

Games are legitimate forms of media, human expression, and cultural importance

Instead of taking all this information and using it as a window on the entire world, a big part of the media industry now exists in large part to confirm your beliefs. People have figured out that there's a lot of money to be made telling you that you were right in the first place. It makes both sides more dug in.

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ even if you write it yourself.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

Do not watch TV aimlessly. Do not go on social media aimlessly. Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it. Don't value TV less. Value it more. Then you will watch it less. Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.

There is no shame in not watching news. There is no shame in not going on Twitter. There is no shame in disconnecting.

Indeed, war and money seemed to be so popular on the news, it should more accurately have been titled The War and Money Show.

He believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

So we have to remember: There is no shame in not watching news. There is no shame in not going on Twitter. There is no shame in disconnecting.

And the trouble is that now we have 24-hour news coverage, where events are continuously breaking but rarely absorbed. We are in a world of news, which by its very nature skims the new moment, garnished with headlines and sound bites, rarely giving us a calmer, more

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends. Ever heard about Dunbar's number?