Media Quotes - Page 111

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.

The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.

The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.

Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule...I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.

I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities.

The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

I want to live a really positive ass life. No matter what is in the media about me or what's said in the comments.

I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements.

I don't feel the need to brand myself in that way [social media]. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of things, I think these social-networking platforms are unprecedented.

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

For me, the part of reporting that's the most rewarding and energizing is just hearing directly from people whose voices haven't often been heard, or incorporated into mainstream media. That stuff is really, really gratifying, and so to realize that you could make a career of that part of it, that appealed to me.