Quotes About Commercial Media

#1. Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.

John Battelle

#2. The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

Kalle Lasn

#3. Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.

Robert G. Picard

#4. Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

Robert McChesney

#5. The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

George Seldes

#6. What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you were supposed to be with someone.

J. Sterling

#7. We are brainwashed about a Woman's beauty...So true!
Majority of women have succumbed to men's and media's idea of beauty which is nothing but a 'commercial farce

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#8. I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

Jack Nicholson

#9. Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

Matt Taibbi

#10. If all you did to improve your commercial presence was to train your sales people on the importance of influencers ... how much more effective could they be?

Sandy Carter

#11. I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

Debby Ryan

#12. Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

Michael Crichton

#13. I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

David Brooks

#14. The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

Ray Bradbury

#15. Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.

Faith Baldwin

#16. Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it's so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it.

Beryl Bender Birch

#17. Shepley threw a french fry at his cousin. "Get your lips outta my girl's ear, Trav!" "Networking! I'm networking!

Jamie McGuire

#18. What do you want want to be remembered for?" she asked tartly.
He slowly shook his head. "I just want to be remembered.

Lorraine Heath

#19. Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

Michelle Shocked

#20. I'd ask you in but I'm kind of sick of your face.

Ann Aguirre

#21. As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

Mary E. Pearson

#22. Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience.

Astra Taylor