Media Quotes - Page 93

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.

Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.

Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live in a media-drenched world floded with junk values. As girls turn from their parents, they turn to this world for guidance about how to be an adult.

A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.

One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.

One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

Relationships with the media are really important. The media has a more important voice today than it has ever had. We don't advertise. We only have one marketing vehicle, which is editorial, and our ability to get our message out and communicate it effectively.

Those of us who believe in human rights and the truth - particularly the journalists and the media - should stand in defense of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. We owe them a lot for telling us the truth of what is happening in our world, and that is why I would continue to support them.

There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment.

People will pay for content ... Everybody is going to have to start charging. They'd be crazy not to.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

If you look at the media coverage and surfing magazines, the one thing that really stands out is how hard it is to find a photo of a girl in a magazine unless it's an ad. It's kind of strange, still to this day. You see these great looking girls surfing so well that are amazingly talented... They are finally the total package.

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.

Ask what you can do for influencers, not what influencers can do for you - develop relationships!

Twitter marketing in 4 words: Listen. Learn. Care. Serve.

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.