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“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”
“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”
“The mediastenographers to power.”
“The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.”
“Was man wnscht, das glaubt auch jeder.”
“Acknowledgements! My thanks to HollywoodWhen you showed me John RamboStitching up his arm with no anaestheticAnd giving them a war they wont believeI knew then my calling, the job for meThanks also...”
“Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.”
“If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their mind...”
“Politics is just show business for ugly people.”
“Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.”
“Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid changes of 'substance' elude these accusers. Surv...”
“James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a...”
“In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because of the power of the media, for millions of men and women the only v...”
“It's 5:22pm you're in the grocery checkout line. Your three-year-old is writhing on the floor, screaming, because you have refused to buy her a Teletubby pinwheel. Your six-year-old is whining, rep...”
“In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.”
“We might think we know how we are being affected by the mediaa book, a movie, a TV series. Ironically, this so-called awareness, the third person effect, is most common with, according to Gierzynsk...”
“People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. Its hard to follow the news without a mounting dread of terrorist attacks, a clash of civilizations, and the use of weapons of mass de...”
“Two years before, when the riots started, the media had had a field day, but now people discussed them less and less. ... ...in fact the media's attitude had changed over the last few months. No on...”
“The corporate media spends a lot of time covering the lifestyles of the rich and the famous, but not all that much time covering the poor and the desperate. To a large degree, these people , the mi...”
“Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understandi...”
