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Media Quotes
"Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game."
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"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."
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"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."
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"We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess."
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"The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
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"An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper."
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"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"."
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"Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
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"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."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
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"I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon version of me, you know, this man-eating, jet-setting serial dater who reels them in, but scares them off because she's clingy and needy; then she's all dejected, so she goes into her lair and writes a song as a weapon. I mean, man, that's pretty intense. And I started thinking about what an interesting character that person is. And, if I was that person, what would my life motto be, my mantra? What would I say? I think I'd own it."
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"Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid."
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"But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did."
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"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."
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"We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and trust to sort out contradictory claims. Instead, the media is splintered into a thousand fragments, each with its own version of reality, each claiming the loyalty of a splintered nation."
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"The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'."
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"Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead."
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"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
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"Careful not to blur the lines between what belongs to characters, and what does not belong to you. Even 'reality tv' is scripted. Don't get it twisted."
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"When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair."
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
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"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."
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"A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera-and bills to pay."
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"The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful - in the eyes of the remote holder."
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"A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from."
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"They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'"
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"In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition."
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"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."
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"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."
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"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
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