Quotes About Media Today

#1. Reality Television is the 'Howard Stern-ation' of all that is bad with our media today

Manny Pacheco

#2. Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

Mark Zuckerberg

#3. Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.

Joseph M. Kahn

#4. There lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day and month, because other young people are reading the kinds of things and seeing the kinds of things that are available in the media today.

Ted Bundy

#5. It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

Chuck Baldwin

#6. When u go on social media today please make sure to make my death all about u k thanks

Prince

#7. Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

Robert McChesney

#8. A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media's depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don't have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

Erica Sehyun Song

#9. Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.

Anne Murray

#10. The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

Newt Gingrich

#11. I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Carl Paladino

#12. Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is ...

Danny Glover

#13. Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived.

Pete Sanders

#14. Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Dave Barry

#15. The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

Curt Weldon

#16. I don't think there is anyone in public life today who can escape the inevitable onslaught of the media. It seeks to pry into and often grossly distort aspects of one's personal and professional life. I guess it just comes with the territory.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

Marshall McLuhan

#18. Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform's native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#19. Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.

Walter Cronkite

#20. The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.

Ashley Judd

#21. But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

Wanda Jackson

#22. The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

Sean Covey

#23. Today's media zoom their cameras in on and dedicate endless column inches to wars, disasters, famines, scandals, tragedies, and every form of evil. Things beautiful, wholesome and good, however, are less photogenic, so the works of God and His servants are rarely noticed.

Jason Mandryk

#24. How can people trust social media over newspapers today?

Joel Landau

#25. Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

Mark Crispin Miller

#26. Trying to escape media influences in today's culture is as feasible as trying to protect ourselves from air pollution by not breathing.

Brene Brown

#27. Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#28. The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.

Simon Mainwaring

#29. Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.

Ron Paul

#30. When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time
the interactive video game.

Jay Moore

#31. Today's businesses can't just use social media; they have to become social businesses, inside and out and from top to bottom. Ultimately, that is the goal of this book: to harness the power of being a social business to become the most highly recommended organization in your industry/category/niche.

Paul M. Rand

#32. Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

David Grossman

#33. The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.

Matthew Pearl

#34. With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.

G. Hannelius

#35. Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

Mike DeWine

#36. Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.

Kaskade

#37. While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

Chris Hardwick

#38. My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.

John McAfee

#39. A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#40. A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

E. M. Forster

#41. I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

M. F. Husain

#42. All this will come as a surprise to modern Internet users who may assume that today's social-media environment is unprecedented. But many of the ways in which we share, consume, and manipulate information, even in the Internet era, build upon habits and conventions that date back centuries.

Tom Standage

#43. But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Chaim Potok

#44. Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

Peter Kreeft

#45. Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.

Paul Copan

#46. We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.

Bob Ainsworth

#47. The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

Tori Amos

#48. Elizabeth Drescher makes a convincing case for why digital social media and Church not only go hand in hand, but how new technologies can help us reclaim traditions from the past in updated ways for today.

Donna Freitas

#49. What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

Bianca Jagger

#50. America today remembers its history through visual imagery. Film, print, and electronic media are very capital intensive, which means that most Americans are consumers, not producers, of the images through which they remember.

Jerry Lembcke

#51. The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

Alastair Campbell

#52. News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work ... when they're thinking ... when they're laughing ... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.

Rupert Murdoch

#53. Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must remain private for the preservation of one's sanity is almost frivolous.

Aysha Taryam

#54. I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything ... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.

Salma Hayek

#55. Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

C. Edwin Baker

#56. The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

Ma Jian

#57. I decided to go to the cinema school because I thought it was a new sort of media. Nowadays, it's not anymore, but in the '50s, cinema had a half century of age. Today it's more than one century. I thought it was a new media, a new way of telling stories.

Costa-Gavras

#58. The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

Pope John Paul II

#59. There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.

Simon Mainwaring

#60. I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Ben Vereen

#61. I am all for the inclusion of foreign cultures, not their omission in our media. Foreign names, brands, and inventions must be allowed to show and to compete in US publications. Today, most foreign words are still banned. And almost 7 billion people whose first language is not English are silenced.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#62. There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day,

Matt Drudge

#63. today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations.

Thomas L. Friedman

#64. Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

Jim Stengel

#65. Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#66. With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

Robin McLeavy

#67. This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the best of life.

Gladys M. Hunt

#68. Today, as never before - the information media having become to enlightenment as the cereal aisle is to the supermarket - if you choose not to access the past, you are de facto free to rule it out of existence, at least so far as you might be concerned.

Jack Womack

#69. Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

Dahr Jamail

#70. 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

#71. Our networks are extensive today, aided by the internet, social media and the increasingly transitory, nomadic lives we all live.

The School Of Life

#72. The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

Carl Bernstein

#73. Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.

Richard Posner

#74. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

Gever Tulley

#75. Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

Evan Rachel Wood

#76. I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.

Sarah Palin

#77. We (pop stars) are people not androids. We've got views. I've got opinions and I don't see why I shouldn't use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

Roger Meddows Taylor

#78. Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

Tommy Tune

#79. Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look for patterns, and then I post questions back to my network.

Padmasree Warrior

#80. In today's media environment, invisibility is a fate much worse than failure for any business large or small.

Peg Samuel

#81. Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels ... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today.

Jill Konrath

#82. Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

Marco Rubio

#83. If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

Joel Osteen

#84. The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

Peter Shilton

#85. Isn't it funny how we all will end up? Best friends today, communicating via internet tomorrow. Crush today, dancing at their weddings tomorrow.

Manasa Rao

#86. Demigods today. I blame social media for their short attention spans. When you can't even take the time to listen to a god hold forth, that's just sad.

Rick Riordan

#87. We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

Jonathan Sacks

#88. Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Bill Maher

#89. Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

John Berger

#90. The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

George Will

#91. The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.

Tony Blair

#92. Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications revolution lead to expectations of instantanaiy are exasperated by the slow toils of history. They assume that the thunderclap of cause will be swiftly followed by the lightening bolt of effect.

William Manchester

#93. Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Joe Scarborough

#94. I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

George Will

#95. The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

Richard Dreyfuss

#96. America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

Bill O'Reilly

#97. It is never to late to practice proper Netiquette. Start today. Be nice!

David Chiles

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Amy Goodman