Media famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
-- A. J. Liebling -
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.
-- Aaron Belz -
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
-- Aaron Carter -
I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,
-- Aaron Klein -
I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
-- Abbie Cornish -
The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.
-- Abdul Kalam -
As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world). The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
-- Adam Carolla -
Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.
-- Adam Levine -
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.
-- Adam Rickitt -
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.
-- Adolf Hitler -
[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way...
-- Adolf Hitler -
[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with...
-- Adolf Hitler -
The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.
-- Adolf Hitler -
As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new and better formulation, but may easily lead to endless debates and general confusion.
-- Adolf Hitler -
To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.
-- Adolf Hitler -
When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.
-- Adolf Hitler -
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.
-- Adolf Hitler -
We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.
-- Adora Svitak -
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
-- Adora Svitak -
We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.
-- Ahmed Akkari -
Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
-- Ai Weiwei -
I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.
-- Ai-jen Poo -
There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.
-- Ajay Devgan -
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
-- Akbar S. Ahmed -
Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.
-- Al Alvarez -
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
-- Al Franken -
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
-- Al Franken -
I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.
-- Al Franken -
To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.
-- Al Franken -
Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
-- Al Franken -
I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.
-- Al Gore -
If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
-- Al Sharpton -
She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.
-- Al Stewart -
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
-- Al Stewart -
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
-- Al Yankovic -
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
-- Al Yankovic -
Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
-- Al Yankovic -
Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
-- Alain Badiou -
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
-- Alain de Botton -
People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.
-- Alan Colmes -
I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?
-- Alanis Morissette -
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
-- Alastair Campbell -
The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
-- Alastair Campbell -
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
-- Alastair Campbell -
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
-- Albert Camus -
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.
-- Alex Atala -
In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.
-- Alex Jones -
And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.
-- Alex Jones -
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
-- Alex Kapranos -
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
-- Alex Steffen -
So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.
-- Alexander Downer -
Money, media, and political power are very closely connected.
-- Alexander Stille -
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
-- Alexander Stille -
In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?
-- Alexander Waugh -
The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.
-- Alexei Shirov -
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
-- Ali MacGraw -
To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.
-- Aliza Sherman -
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
-- Aloe Blacc -
America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.
-- Aloe Blacc -
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
-- Alva Myrdal -
The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.
-- Alvin Toffler -
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
-- Alvin Toffler -
I dont make it a practice to respond to reports in the social media but occasionally it is necessary.
-- Amalie Benjamin -
According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I don't know if this is what the IDF says to the media.
-- Amira Hass -
Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
-- Amos Lee -
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
-- Amy Goodman -
People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.
-- Amy Goodman -
[The media] are using a national treasure--that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.
-- Amy Goodman -
The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
-- Amy Goodman -
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-- Amy Goodman -
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.
-- Amy Goodman -
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.
-- Amy Goodman -
We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
-- Amy Goodman -
But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'
-- Amy Goodman -
Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term 'social media' didn't do us any favors. It's not really media. It's more like the telephone, less like the TV.
-- Amy Jo Martin -
Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.
-- Amy Jo Martin -
I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.
-- Amy Jo Martin
