Quotes About Media

A recent study shows that one hundred per cent of youngsters on hard drugs had at some time in their lives listened to so-called pop music

The American craving for illegal, mind-altering, addictive chemicals provides a steady flow of American capital through the Texas border into Mexico and South America. Basically, the drug traffic is uncontainable as long as its U.S. market exists, but newspapers and other media virtuously trumpet feel-good headlines about "record drug busts" and arrests while the drug trade continues unabated.

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

You can never trust what you read.

The press became devoted to Eisenhower, in large part because he confided in journalists and trusted them to act as his partners rather than his enemies. Butcher called Eisenhower "the keenest in dealing with the press I've ever seen, and I have met a lot of them, many of whom are phonies.

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS> LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS> POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS> VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION> PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATION so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.

Of all the communications technologies discussed in this book, radio and television are the most hierarchical; no preceding media could reach so many people so instantaneously and with so little feedback in the opposite direction.

McCarthy succeeded because he discovered and made full use of a tradition of American journalism—that most newpapermen report the news 'straight.' This means that if a prominent person says something sensational—even if untrue—the press normally will report the statement exactly as spoken ... The press simply acts as a mirror.

There are twice as many governmental public-relations men in Washington as there are journalists.

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

As it concerns Clinton coverage, the Times will have a special place in journalism hell.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

You know, those unboxing videos you see everywhere on YouTube. They are the epitome of consumerist fetishism.

We're all photojournalists now. It's no longer enough just to write.

It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe's 'saturation reporting' was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing it, complete with photographs and videos.

Mixed accents are the norm these days. Even if you don't travel, you're not immune from accent shift. Innumerable voices enter your home every day through radio, television, the telephone, and the internet.

The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is that they don't go far enough; they don't have a coherent view of life. Spinning around in the media from moment to moment, they don't stand for anything, push for anything; they're mere opportunists without dedication, and they don't win any victories.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Don't believe everything you read.

While letters can embody ongoing conversations, social media is primarily made up of comments—and those are two very different things.

[Television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.