Famous Quotes About Media
Courtesy of the good people at Born To Motivate:
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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Media
Agnew, Spiro T.
1918-1996 American Vice President
Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
Media
Baldwin, Stanley
1867-1947 British Conservative Politician Prime Minister
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Media
Benjamin, Walter
1982-1940 German Critic Philosopher
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
Media
Berger, John
1926 British Actor Critic
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Media
Breslin, Jimmy
American Actor Author
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Media
Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Media
Camus, Albert
1913-1960 French Existential Writer
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
Media
Carter, Jimmy
1924 American Statesman 39th President
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -- indoctrination, we might say -- exercised through the mass media.
Media
Chomsky, Noam
1928 American Linguist Political Activist
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
Media
Cobbett, William
1762-1835 British Journalist Reformer
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Media
Cooper, James F.
1789-1851 American Novelist
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
Media
Dowd, Maureen
American Newspaper Columnist
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, Candle making industry threatened.
Media
Gingrich, Newt
American Statesman
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Media
Greene, Graham
1904-1991 British Novelist
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
Media
Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities -- life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
Media
Kavanagh, Patrick
1905-1967 Irish Poet Author
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.
Media
Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963 Thirty-fifth President of the USA
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Media
Lasch, Christopher
1932 American Historian
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Media
Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.
Media
Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Media
Mcluhan, Marshall
1911-1980 Canadian Communications Theorist
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium -- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Media
Mcluhan, Marshall
1911-1980 Canadian Communications Theorist
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Media
Mcluhan, Marshall
1911-1980 Canadian Communications Theorist
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Media
Mead, Margaret
1901-1978 American Anthropologist
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
Media
Mills, C. Wright
1916-1962 American Sociologist
Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.
Media
O'Donnell, Chris
1970 American Actor
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
Media
Orton, William A.
Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.
Media
Reeves, John
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
Media
Roosevelt, Theodore
1858-1919 Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Report me and my cause aright.
Media
Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
Media
Sharpton, Rev. Al
American Minister
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Media
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
1918 Russian Novelist
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.
Media
Spengler, Oswald
1880-1936 German Philosopher
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.
Media
Vidal, Gore
1925 American Novelist Critic
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Media
Walters, Barbara
1931 American TV Personality
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
Media
Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
http://www.borntomotivate.com/FamousQuote_Media.html
(...)
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Media
Agnew, Spiro T.
1918-1996 American Vice President
Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
Media
Baldwin, Stanley
1867-1947 British Conservative Politician Prime Minister
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Media
Benjamin, Walter
1982-1940 German Critic Philosopher
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
Media
Berger, John
1926 British Actor Critic
Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Media
Breslin, Jimmy
American Actor Author
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Media
Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Media
Camus, Albert
1913-1960 French Existential Writer
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
Media
Carter, Jimmy
1924 American Statesman 39th President
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -- indoctrination, we might say -- exercised through the mass media.
Media
Chomsky, Noam
1928 American Linguist Political Activist
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
Media
Cobbett, William
1762-1835 British Journalist Reformer
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Media
Cooper, James F.
1789-1851 American Novelist
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
Media
Dowd, Maureen
American Newspaper Columnist
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, Candle making industry threatened.
Media
Gingrich, Newt
American Statesman
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Media
Greene, Graham
1904-1991 British Novelist
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
Media
Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities -- life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
Media
Kavanagh, Patrick
1905-1967 Irish Poet Author
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.
Media
Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963 Thirty-fifth President of the USA
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Media
Lasch, Christopher
1932 American Historian
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Media
Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.
Media
Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Media
Mcluhan, Marshall
1911-1980 Canadian Communications Theorist
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium -- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
Media
Mcluhan, Marshall
1911-1980 Canadian Communications Theorist
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Media
Mcluhan, Marshall
1911-1980 Canadian Communications Theorist
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Media
Mead, Margaret
1901-1978 American Anthropologist
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
Media
Mills, C. Wright
1916-1962 American Sociologist
Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.
Media
O'Donnell, Chris
1970 American Actor
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
Media
Orton, William A.
Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.
Media
Reeves, John
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
Media
Roosevelt, Theodore
1858-1919 Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Report me and my cause aright.
Media
Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
Media
Sharpton, Rev. Al
American Minister
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Media
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
1918 Russian Novelist
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.
Media
Spengler, Oswald
1880-1936 German Philosopher
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.
Media
Vidal, Gore
1925 American Novelist Critic
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Media
Walters, Barbara
1931 American TV Personality
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
Media
Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
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