Media Quotes - Page 43

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.

It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.

Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much.

You listen to all the [Barack] Obama intelligence officials all saying ISIS will infiltrate that [immigrants] population. We have so many majority-Muslim countries that are not impacted, but the media insists on calling this a Muslim ban.

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.