Quotes About Media

The newspaper collects the previous day's garbage in order to feed it to us for breakfast.

Las noticias son el substituto de las verdades.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

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.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

Was wir über unsere Gesellschaft, ja über die Welt, in der wir leben, wissen, wissen wir durch die Massenmedien

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.

When Bill Cunningham invites him on the air, it is not to set the story straight so the story ends. It is to add a new chapter, a new twist that propels the narrative forward into another week of ratings cycles.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

If Shakespeare were alive now, no doubt he'd be interviewed every week and his opinions canvassed on every subject from national foreign policy to the social effects of punk rock. But in his day nobody cared what Shakespeare's views were about anything, and he wouldn't have been allowed to discuss public affairs publicly. He wasn't, therefore, under a constant pressure to become opinionated.

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. Bullets are cheap and full of big dramatic pictures. Some bullets are true virtuals that allow people to experience—safely—hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and mass murder. Hell of a kick.

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.