Quotes About Media

And that had led to them talking about social media – he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

Magazines are very popular, despite no human's ever feeling better for having read them. Indeed, their chief purpose is to generate a sense of inferiority in the reader that consequently leads to a feeling of needing to buy something, which the humans then do, and then feel even worse

The news should start with mathematics, then poetry, and move down from there.

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

The website also adds that "people who can admire a beautiful model but say 'I could never look like her but it doesn't bother me too much' are the people who are least likely to fall victim to problems with food." Maybe there is a lesson for all of us here: in that disconnect between the images we see and the selves we are. We need to build a kind of immune system of the mind, where we can absorb but not get infected by the world around us.

The news could be more accurately described as the war and money show.

Magazines are colourful, glossy print-based tools designed to fuel a sense of inadequacy within the reader. The aim of a magazine publisher being to make people feel too poor, fat, old, single, unhealthy, unfamous, ill informed, badly dressed, anxious, undersexed and generally depressed, while at the same time acting like they are solving these problems.

researchers worry that heavy use of interactive media can, over time, reduce attention spans. The fear is that we grow so accustomed to frequent bursts of stimulation, we have trouble feeling satisfied in their absence.

Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.

The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more than half of the herd makes a move to bolt, they all move.

Why use the most advanced communications technology in history to teach people basic geography, or how World Bank structural adjustment lending works, when we can instead show people idiots drinking donkey semen for money?

Accelerated by social media, moral panic has become the last dependably profitable format of modern news reporting.

Irony alert: the most important news story in the world is the inability of the ordinary news consumer to understand the news. This is no dig against readers. The world has just grown so complex that the majority of serious issues are beyond the understanding of non-specialists.

After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind's eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

You can tell a lot about a country by how boring its media is. If you turn on the TV and immediately feel like going to sleep, it generally means the political class feels secure.

TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality. That

One political party may be preferable to another. A news channel, though, can't be a vehicle for a political party and be anything but a bad thing.

America is ceasing to be a nation, and turning into a giant television show. And this Republican race is our first and most brutal casting call.

Win or lose, Trump's campaign threatens to unleash the Great American Stupid S

as is curiously also the case with high-level politicians, top on-air personalities and print editorialists are never geniuses. They almost never say or write surprising things. They don't dazzle or amaze.

The party worked the cattle in their pen into such a dither that now they won't rest until they get the giant wall that real-life, as-seen-on-TV billionaire Donald Trump promises will save them from all those measles-infected rapists pouring over the border. Not

it's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense

The public largely misunderstands the "fake news" issue. Newspapers rarely fib outright. Most "lies" are errors of omission or emphasis. There are no Fox stories saying blue states have lower divorce rates, nor are there MSNBC stories exploring the fact that many pro-choice Democrats, particularly religious ones, struggle with a schism between their moral and political beliefs on abortion.