Quotes About Public

It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media. Because public interest is most easily aroused by dramatic events and by celebrities, media feeding frenzies are common.

The media do not just shape what the public is interested in, but also are shaped by it. Editors cannot ignore the public's demands that certain topics and viewpoints receive extensive coverage. Unusual

The public is now well aware that formulas may do better than humans in some critical decisions in the world of sports:

The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. The coverage is itself biased toward novelty and poignancy. The media do not just shape what the public is interested

Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public's mind. It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media.

Differences between experts and the public are explained in part by biases in lay judgments, but Slovic draws attention to situations in which the differences reflect a genuine conflict of values.

The stories understandably frightened the public, and those fears encouraged more media coverage, the basic mechanism of an availability cascade.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Its crime-ridden public housing estates—in France they were known as HLMs, or habitation à loyer modéré—were

In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.

The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

Hearst knew that in war propaganda, it is not crucial whether something is true or not. What matters is that it is constantly repeated and communicated to the population through many media outlets.

Many a great, if fleeting, medical discovery has been launched similarly. "Make haste," as one physician put it, "to use a new remedy before it is too late." The guilt does not always lie with the medical profession alone. Public pressure and hasty journalism often launch a treatment that is unproved, particularly when the demand is great and the statistical background hazy. So

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

Arbitrary rule frightens people. Power tempered with justice is well loved." He shrugged. "It is a gamble, but I would much sooner trust the Four together, and in public, than any one of them alone, in private." Oh

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Ends matter, but so do means. It is a distinction long lost on the public—understandably so, given how accustomed it has become to Court intervention. But the justices themselves know better. They know their institution's history. They know that triumphalism hasn't always been the way. They just choose to step in anyway. They do because they can. It is what has made the Supreme Court the most dangerous branch.

Dr. Rush was firm in his belief that education, to be successful, must infuse the principles of Christianity throughout all of its academic disciplines. In fact, when he presented his plan for universal public education on March 28, 1787, he explained:

Do what you will, reputation is at least as fickle as your station in life. Others decide what your reputation is.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.