Media Quotes - Page 46

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day.

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

Let me say, it's - what a commentary it is on American media that you have to go to Russian television in order to get covered as a candidate in this election. It's pretty outrageous. And our media could solve that in a heartbeat if they actually opened it up, you know, but they don't. So I think that's more commentary on the crisis in our media.

On the other hand, there was hard evidence of real tampering in the election, and that was the email, you know, that were revealed from the DNC, that showed, in fact, that the DNC was collaborating with Hillary's [Clinton] campaign, and with some members of the corporate media, to smear Bernie Sanders and to really pull the rug out from under him. So, there's no doubt about that tampering, and that's when they began to say, oh, the Russians are doing this terrible stuff to our election.

Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

Social media allows big companies to act small again.

Passion is the gasoline of social media.

Content that helps is superior to content that sells.

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.

There are no important media outlets in the US that are not owned or controlled by Jews.

Rick Shapiro is a top comedian.