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Media Quotes
"Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public."
9
"Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems."
9
"Computer hackers are the true journalists in the 21st Century. The old journalism is worse than dead. It is unreliable to the point that it is nothing more than a nuisance, an obstacle in the pursuit of truth."
9
"The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons."
9
"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
8
"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."
8
"It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news."
8
"Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!"
8
"But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you?"
8
"But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other."
8
"Tactical use of the media can be equated to power behind your skill or special ability. It is in the power of the media to help market your brand. You just need to look at Hollywood, European football, Bollywood, Nollywood, Global fashion & modeling, showbiz and even humanitarian efforts, to appreciate that the making and destroying of stars, initiatives and legends is to a greater extent influenced by the role played by the media."
8
"Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it."
8
"Social media was designed to SHARE what you're doing and who you are, not BE what you're doing and be who you are."
8
"Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead."
8
"An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper."
8
"The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance."
8
"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
8
"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."
7
"Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid."
7
"The loudest silence is camera silence."
7
"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."
7
"The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story."
7
"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."
7
"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
7
"The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
7
"New Rule: The White House doesn't have to release the dead Bin Laden photos, but don't pretend we can't take it. We've seen pictures of Britney Spears's vagina getting out of a car. Television has desensitizes us to violence, and porn has desensitized us to people getting shot in the eye."
7
"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
6
"The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful - in the eyes of the remote holder."
6
"In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition."
6
"The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did."
6
"This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right."
6
"When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste."It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive"."
6
"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."
6
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
6
"Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything."
6
"The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad."
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