Media Quotes - Page 18

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.

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.

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.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

Content-based marketing gets repeated in social media and increases word-of-mouth mentions; it's the best way to gather buzz about a product.

Over the years of courtship and being together, we realized that there was no value left for anything. People just want to know what we're eating, which designer I'm wearing, who we've invited... Saif and I decided that we wanted to keep the purest part of our relationship sacred. We followed protocol by going out on to the terrace and waving at the media after officially registering the marriage, but they didn't need to know more than that.