Quotes About The Media

#1. 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

#2. My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

Margaret Beckett

#3. I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Khloe Kardashian

#4. Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Iris Chang

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

Lizz Winstead

#7. 'Betchya Got A Cure' is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It's about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#8. When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

Robin Williams

#9. A similar phenomenon developed with acid rain in the 1990s, as the media attended to the idea that its cause was still not established - more than a decade after that was no longer true - or the claim that it would cost more to fix than it was worth, which was unsupported by evidence.

Naomi Oreskes

#10. The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.

Francis Schaeffer

#11. The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

Thomas Struth

#12. In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

Terry Eagleton

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

Jacques Derrida

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Susan Polgar

#18. 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

Felix Dennis

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. People in a connected world are exposed to the stories of strangers through many channels, including face-to-face encounters, interviews in the media, and memoirs and autobiographical accounts.

Steven Pinker

#24. BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.

Tim Wu

#25. There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.

Dave Morris

#26. I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.

Tom A. Watson

#27. The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can awaken people and change minds. It depends on who's piloting the plane.

Katie Couric

#28. I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

Todd Gitlin

#29. 'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#30. [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

Richard Dawkins

#31. As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

Michael Azerrad

#32. From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

Tammy Bruce

#33. I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

Johnny Vegas

#34. There are some Trump detractors who feel like it's the media's job to stop Trump.

Howard Kurtz

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

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

Paul Watson

#44. 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

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

Mary Lou Retton

#46. 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

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

Enoch Powell

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

David Grossman

#55. The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

Michael Pollan

#56. This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

Dan Quayle

#57. For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Bruce Jackson

#58. American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#59. Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile.

Tim LaHaye

#60. I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Jean-Claude Duvalier

#61. To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

Al Franken

#62. A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

Evgeny Morozov

#63. Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

Paul Ormerod

#64. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#65. Google is not a media company by any traditional definition of the word, but it makes its billions from the media business model.

Chris Anderson

#66. I don't want ISIS using our Internet to take our young, impressionable youth and watching the media talking about how they're masterminds - these are masterminds. They shouldn't be using the word "mastermind."

Donald Trump

#67. I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.

Ryan Grim

#68. The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#69. Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

Thomas Sowell

#70. This is God's world this is not the media's world.

Terrell Owens

#71. IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday

Lisa Gardner

#72. If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.

John Roberts

#73. The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful ... in the eyes of the remote holder.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#74. If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Lennox Lewis

#75. I don't think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and as I see it happening to me, I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible.

Miley Cyrus

#76. With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from.

Shawn Johnson

#77. So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

Thom Yorke

#78. Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

Sarah Palin

#79. I think the media is a real demon.

George Michael

#80. The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

Marc Faber

#81. I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

Don Mattingly

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

Toby Young

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care.

Julia Butterfly Hill

#89. I'm trying to do the right things, especially on the ice. Even when I talk to the media, I try to not be obnoxious or be rude. I try to approach you with respect. Same thing when I played, especially if you're the captain, you wanna try and set an example.

Nicklas Lidstrom

#90. If it's true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.

Lance Morcan

#91. I really dislike it when the media asks young actresses, normally when they're about 23, how they feel about ageing. There are other things to worry about.

Penelope Cruz

#92. Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Ben Carson

#93. The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

Mike Myers

#94. The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

Mark Skousen

#95. Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.

Orson Scott Card

#96. I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

Amy Jo Martin

#97. If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.

Ann Coulter

#98. I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

Cat Stevens

#99. As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

Steven F. Hayward

#100. I tell them that Im a lesbian but doesnt seem to matter to them - they see in the media is that we havent met the right guy yet, or that weve been raped or abused by our daddies and were just waiting for Mr. Right to come sweep us off our feet, and Im really tired of seeing that.

Jill Bennett