Media Quotes - Page 3

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.

I never knew I was so stupid or so ugly until there was social media.

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

Betcha I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons, got buffoons eating my pussy while I watch cartoons.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do.

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.

Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.