Quotes About Media

#1. It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

Amy Jo Martin

#2. It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.

Tom Felton

#3. When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Alan Keyes

#4. I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

David Talbot

#5. But when a Saudi owned media company is prepared to both publicly praise the words of Benjamin Netanyahu tells you just how bad a nuclear deal between the United States and Iran would be.

Anonymous

#6. There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

Zendaya

#7. Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.

Dan Gilroy

#8. The media cannot come separate [Donald] Trump from his supporters. Only Trump can do that. They're trying, they're gonna keep trying because they think they can. They did it with [George W.]Bush. They did it with [Mitt] Romney. They did it with [John] McCain. They did it with Bob Dole.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.

Benjamin Cohen

#10. Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

Sam Branson

#12. If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

Toby Young

#13. Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.

Kim Garst

#14. At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

Rupert Murdoch

#15. I do the math. On one side: Anderson, the entire police force, the media, and most likely the pope himself. On the other side, my innocence. This does not add up to a terribly encouraging bottom line.

Jeff Lindsay

#16. Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

Chris Brogan

#17. We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE

Ryan North

#18. It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

David Horsey

#19. Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

Bill Joy

#20. All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media.

Germany Kent

#21. The media theme was, "June is when you win the presidency," because that's what they thought Hillary [Clinton] was doing. Hillary was running ads condemning [Donald] Trump, characterizing Trump, marginalizing Trump.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.

Tila Tequila

#23. When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

#24. I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

Mike Barnicle

#25. During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That's not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite.

Ryan Holmes

#26. [While] physically traveling someplace or experiencing someplace firsthand, physically versus - which is what a lot of young people do - the experience is mitigated through technology and through social media.

Marco Brambilla

#27. [W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media that disproportionately gives a forum to economically driven ideology over sound science.

Noam Chomsky

#28. I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

Mark Pincus

#29. Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters.

Gregory Kane

#30. I forced myself to comply. When the media reports that a suspect in custody was killed after resisting arrest, they never tell you how hard it is to assist passively with your own kidnapping. They never talk about the discipline it takes to submit.

Molly Crabapple

#31. Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

Enoch Powell

#32. I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard.

Mike Tyson

#33. It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.

Tom Colicchio

#34. Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Mary Lou Retton

#35. In a culture dominated, if not by violence, then certainly by overheated reports of it dished out by a ratings-starved news media, it reassured her that the love of peace and natural order was still extant in the human soul.

Nevada Barr

#36. Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

Lino Rulli

#37. I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines.

Phil Klay

#38. That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

Paul Watson

#39. Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#40. I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

Nikki Reed

#41. I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.

Eva Green

#42. We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

Amy Goodman

#43. I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

LeVar Burton

#44. I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#45. People do not want more noise in their social media streams. They want entertainment, uplifting conversations, and products that last. Most importantly, they want to be taken seriously.

Cendrine Marrouat

#46. Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.

Vir Das

#47. Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.

Ishmael Reed

#48. Corporations, government entities and media conglomerates-fear the ideology of an animal liberationist could catch hold and topple them from their golden thrones, reducing their animal product profits.

Charlotte Laws

#49. This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right.

J.R. Rim

#50. So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

Mario Monti

#51. Social Media isn't about reach as much as it is about "reach out".

Michele Jennae

#52. Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

Imogen Heap

#53. I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

Evan Hunter

#54. 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

#55. The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

Chuck Close

#56. Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Virginia Postrel

#57. There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

Preston Manning

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

Gus Van Sant

#61. Social media can easily become the equivalent of junk food for our soul

Ken Shigematsu

#62. The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.

John Yarmuth

#63. Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#64. People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#65. And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they're the majority owners.

Alex Jones

#66. I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.

Joe Wilson

#67. The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968.

Ann Coulter

#68. Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

Lester Bangs

#69. If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

Tom Freston

#70. As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

Spike Lee

#71. In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.

Ruben Blades

#72. The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.

David Amerland

#73. The mainstream media perpetuates the notion that women should focus entirely on a static image of a perfect body as the end goal. There are no messages about the process, the active body, how it makes us feel in that moment.

Anna Kessel

#74. The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

Sam Smith

#75. I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Paul Bloom

#76. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Marshall McLuhan

#77. There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

Ajay Devgan

#78. Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

Seth Roberts

#79. I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

Medea Benjamin

#80. Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

Mark Cuban

#81. Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

Howard Schultz

#82. Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.

Cara Delevingne

#83. Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better ...

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#84. It's proper netiquette to add suggested friends to your social media accounts.

David Chiles

#85. Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

Paul Krugman

#86. A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Rowan Williams

#87. Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Bruce Jackson

#88. No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

Tom Shales

#89. People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#90. I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media. I feel like politicians ? the way I explain it, is when you go to a zoo and a monkey throws feces, it's a monkey. But when the zookeeper is standing right there and he doesn't say, 'Bad monkey' ? somebody's gotta be the zookeeper.

Jon Stewart

#91. The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

George Will

#92. Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.

Milton William Cooper

#93. We recognized early on that media consumption was evolving and customers were looking for moving images to include as part of their advertising campaigns, website designs and corporate presentations.

Jon Oringer

#94. Believe it or not, fame is not as glamorous as it seems. I think it is much harder now with all of the media outlets, and people can be pretty nasty and harsh.

Kim Kardashian

#95. The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.

Arthur Dong

#96. When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

David Cassidy

#97. Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

Roland Lazenby

#98. The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Jacques Derrida

#99. I certainly don't recognise myself as the horrible sexist portrayed in media reports, and I don't think the women who have worked with me throughout my career do either.

Tim Hunt

#100. Don't let an outside influence, especially one as powerful as the media, direct your energies to the wrong place.

Susan Polgar