147 quotes found
“The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.”
“Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
“Media consumers in the 0s, 10s, 20s, and 30s have no such print alliances. To them, the idea of printing on a dead tree and then trucking it to houses and newsstands seems ludicrous, old-fashioned,...”
“What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories wi...”
“A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the medias depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they dont have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.”
“Give me lust, baby.Flash.Give me malice.Flash.Give me detached existentialist ennui.Flash.Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.Flash.”
“The media is the right arm of anarchy.”
“If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.”
“Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”
“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”
“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is be...”
“The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.”
“The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”
“All media work us over completely.”
“The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?”
“The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.”
“And next time we hear someone saying something like, 'We are pursuing this strategy because other strategies, when we had considered them, we concluded that, in terms of overall effectiveness, they...”
“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.”
“Isnt the media supposed to keep government responsible?”
“Just as there are legal guidelines concerning the police use of provocateurs, there must be limits to how far the media can go in setting up a misleading situation ... I, for one, can simply not ac...”
