Quotes About Media

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

If this is the Information Age, what are we so informed about?

Instead, the situation has sparked an efflorescence of social media (Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter): basically, of forms of electronic media that lend themselves to being produced and consumed while pretending to do something else. I am convinced this is the primary reason for the rise of social media...

Spending all day in a sterile office environment, I'm too mentally numb to do anything but consume meaningless media," he says.

Look on the bright side. Even though America's Wokey-Woke police cannot issue arrest warrants for real or imagined transgressors from the pages of history, they still have the New York Times willing to do a little front-page strangling on their behalf.

The preponderance of canned laughter on the American boob tube presents the viewer with a conundrum of three choices without the possibility of answering incorrectly. 1. The material is not that funny. 2. The audience is really that stupid. 3. Both 1 and 2.

Why watch the boob tube when there is YouTube?

Journalisms' once Holy Mantra of "who, what, where, when and, sometimes how," has been thoroughly eradicated by a ravenous creature of 24/7 photo-ops and sound bites.

he [Robert Lovett] knew that those whose names were always in print, who were always on the radio and television, were there precisely because they did not have power, that those who did hold or had access to power tried to keep out of sight. Halberstam, David; John McCain (2002-03-26). The Best and the Brightest (Modern Library) (Kindle Locations 448-449). Modern Library. Kindle Edition.

Advertising," he wrote, "now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence. It dominates the media, it has vast power in the shaping of popular standards and it is really one of the very limited groups of institutions which exercise social control.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

Education was central to reporting.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Several weeks later, President Eisenhower complained to reporters that Nixon had lost simply because of a "couple of phone calls.

Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film - another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is *never* satiated. And when someone is fully consumed - vampirized - they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers. ("Red Light")

Carmack wasn't worried that there was suddenly going to be some secret link exposed between games and murder; disturbed people are disturbed people, pure and simple.

320 pounds of gamer meat

It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.