Quotes About Media

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.

Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.

I make funny shows and put a positive message out there, showing people who have body image issues that... you don't have to look a certain way.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.

The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.

The media will mess your way of thinking up, don't take they word for nothing do your on research.

I have done 'Sports Illustrated, ' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.