Media Quotes - Page 12

• Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

  Benjamin Carson

  Party, Responsibility, Political

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• The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, United States, Might

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• Language is butchered by the media

  Don Watson

  Language

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• The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

  Tom Bodett

  Thinking, People, Everyday

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• People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.

  Aeriel Miranda

  People, Age, Three

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• I'm like anybody else that's in media. I've got my opinions. I share them. I'm not afraid of them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opinion, Share, Not Afraid

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• I don't need any more avenues of communication, and frankly I think people are still working out to realize that it's just a tool[social media] rather than something that you have to do or participate in.

  Ian MacKaye

  Communication, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

  Russell Baker

  Believe, Reason Why, Politician

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• Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Believe, School, Want

  "Your Social Score Is the New Credit Score" by Amy Jo Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

  Walter Kirn

  Choices, Lessons, Strange

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• Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

  Gore Vidal

  Eye, Work Out, Citizens

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• 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

  People, Germany, Want

  Attributed to Mark Crispin Miller in Michael A. Kirchubel "Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America" (p. 224), 2009.

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• People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

  Mindy Kaling

  People, Faces, Assumption

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• In 2012, 40 of the top companies to work for were also among the top companies in social media.

  Jay Baer

  Social Media, Social, Company

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• These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

  Chris Grayling

  Coward, Troll, Internet

  "Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases" By Glen Owen, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 18, 2014.

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• The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am. I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative. Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Fashion, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

  John Oliver

  Humanity, Trying, Bars

  Interview with Jason Zabel, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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

  Eva Green

  Social Media, Social, Century

  "Comic-Con: Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton and Director Noam Murro Talk 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2013.

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• It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.

  Peter Mullan

  Strong, Ideas, Brain

  "If I went there I'd be found hanging from a bridge" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

  Sophia Myles

  Strong, Giving, Messages

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• You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.

  Mark Cuban

  People, Links, Social

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• I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Fronts

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• As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this
  (media attention and showbiz world). The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first
  time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Children, Parent, House

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• As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

  Tina Yothers

  Concerned

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