Quotes About Media

Trump, in a smart move, picked up his media reputation and relocated it from a hypercritical New York to a more value-free Hollywood, becoming the star of his own reality show, The Apprentice, and embracing a theory that would serve him well during his presidential campaign: in flyover country, there is no greater asset than celebrity. To be famous is to be loved—or at least fawned over.

But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone.

Media is personal. It is a series of blood scores. The media in its often collective mind decides who is going to rise and who is going to fall, who lives and who dies. If you stay around long enough in the media eye, your fate, like that of a banana republic despot, is often an unkind one—a law Hillary Clinton was not able to circumvent. The media has the last word.

Donald Trump produced on a daily basis an astonishing, can't-stop-following-it narrative.

While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory.

Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who had set themselves up as almost professional fools.

Scaramucci also took on Steve Bannon: "I'm not Steve Bannon. I'm not trying to suck my own cock." (In fact, Bannon learned about the piece when fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci's accusation that he sucked his own cock.)

After months of defending Bannon against liberal media innuendo, Kushner had concluded that Bannon was an anti-Semite. That was the bottom-line issue.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

They were really willing to pay to avoid any trouble. No doubt they had overestimated the ability of academics to make a nuisance of themselves. It had been years since an academic title gained you access to major media.... Even if all the university professors in France had risen up in protest, almost nobody would have noticed, but apparently they hadn't found that out in Saudi Arabia. They still believed, deep down, in the power of the intellectual elite. It was almost touching.

Adolescent, Michel croyait que la souffrance donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire. Il devait maintenant en convenir: il s'était trompé. Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire, c'était la télévision.

Curiosamente, la prensa, aunque estaba perdiendo la cuasi totalidad de sus lectores, había incrementado en estos últimos años su poder nocivo, ahora podía arruinar vidas, y no se privaba de hacerlo, sobre todo en período electoral, incluso el recurso de un procedimiento judicial se había vuelto inútil, una simple sospecha bastaba para destruir a alguien

todo el mundo se ha acostumbrado a que las personalidades se expresen en los medios sobre los temas más variados y a que por lo general digan cosas previsibles, y ya nadie les presta verdadera atención;

I felt more and more ill at ease: people had often spoken to me about show business, media projects, and micro-sociology; but art, never, and I was filled with the presentiment of something novel, dangerous, and probably fatal, from a domain where there was — a bit like in love — almost nothing to win and almost everything to lose.

Two years before, when the riots started, the media had had a field day, but now people discussed them less and less. ... ...in fact the media's attitude had changed over the last few months. No one talked about violence in the banlieues or race riots anymore. That was all passed over in silence.

Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire; c'était la télévision.

Parfois on se fait instrumentaliser, comme moi je me fait instrumentaliser aussi, tout le monde se fait instrumentaliser. Evidemment, on dit regardez comme la presse est libre - elle invite des individus qui critiquent la presse donc ça veut bien dire qu'on est libre, mais je suis pas dupe du fait que non, je suis la caution qui permet à la presse de dire qu'elle est libre alors qu'elle ne l'est pas. LCI M.Onfray 10/05/17 11m40

Depuis des années, le grand formateur des consciences n'est plus l'école, elle aussi vendue au marché et aux idéologues, mais l'écran – la télévision, le net, le tweet.

Predictably, the national broadcaster—a viper's nest of socialists, tree-huggers and ugly, barren females—had seized on the survey, exhuming one of its bleeding-heart ideologues to moan about funding cuts to education.

Then he'd given Alexander the territories of Armenia, Media, and the unconquered empire of Parthia.

EVERY MAN WITH A LACK OF INCOME AND A TALENT FOR words now believes himself to be a journalist.

Watching television requires less of an effort than reading newspapers and magazines, which is its greatest danger. (Chapter 12)

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.