Top 61 Communication Media Quotes
#1. Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#2. Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.
Ennio Flaiano
#3. My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.
Tony Goldwyn
#4. Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.
Ryan Holmes
#5. There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.
Carmen Lawrence
#6. The media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.
Manuel Castells
#7. I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.
Michael Bloomberg
#8. As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.
James Comey
#9. Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.
Matt Gentile
#10. The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
Neil Postman
#11. Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust
Paul Babicki
#12. Reagan's easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.
Michael Rogin
#13. Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.
Elise Andrew
#14. A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.
Harold Holzer
#15. Social media provides us the opportunity to think before we 'speak', giving us a better shot at reasoned dialog. So it's not a huge surprise to me that not only can real communication happen, but real relationships can blossom.
Paul Biedermann
#16. Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.
Harold Holzer
#17. Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.
Aaron Belz
#18. The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.
Sara Sheridan
#19. An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye.
Karl Schroeder
#20. On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.
Sara Sheridan
#21. The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters' changing media habits.
Neil Newhouse
#23. To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.
Aliza Sherman
#24. Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.
Stephen Colbert
#25. Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.
Charles Emmerson
#26. I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have to be genuinely interested in people; there's a cornucopia of great, ordinary people out there with wonderful, colourful stories.
Ray Martin
#28. Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.
Andrew Pettegree
#29. The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
Tariq Ramadan
#30. I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.
Sara Sheridan
#31. A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Cory Doctorow
#33. Mass communication
wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued
presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
Rollo May
#34. I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.
Sara Sheridan
#35. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.
Dave Eggers
#36. Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.
Susan Wojcicki
#37. The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
Sara Sheridan
#38. We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.
Tom Bentley
#39. Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.
Glenn Greenwald
#40. Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
Christian Lous Lange
#41. Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
Clay Shirky
#42. Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.
Rowan Williams
#43. Technology offers great communication tools. Social media helps make connections. And, heart to heart conversations take place face to face and not over email, Whatsup, Facebook or Twitter. Don't be deceived.
Ana Ortega
#45. Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#46. Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line) ... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.
Dale Spender
#47. I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't like, and I always felt frustrated because I felt like I was a communication artist or a media artist. The best advertising is one of the art forms of our culture.
Lee Clow
#48. The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#49. I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.
Sara Sheridan
#50. Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Marshall McLuhan
#51. Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
David Riesman
#52. This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.
Mark Sayers
#53. (I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),
David Halberstam
#54. Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.
Ryan Holmes
#55. If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.
Pope John Paul II
#56. In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.
Robert Waterman McChesney
#57. The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.
Sara Sheridan
#58. A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.
Anthony Carmona
#60. Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.
John Treasure
#61. [T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
Clay Shirky
