Media Quotes - Page 5

• The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

  Bill Moyers

  Democracy, Quality, Journalism

  "Bill Moyer’s Speech – Nat’l Conf. for Media Reform". dailygrail.com. May 19, 2005.

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• As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

  L. Neil Smith

  Firsts, First Amendment, Amendments

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• I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

  Bianca Jagger

  Want, Forget, Let Me

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• I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Profession

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Invasion, Definitions

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• Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

  Paul Weyrich

  Ideological, Advertisers

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• The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

  William Colby

  War, Agency, Government

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• I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

  Phil Donahue

  Scare, Population, Realizing

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 24, 2005.

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• And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Position, Jeopardy

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• Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Would Be, Paradise, Formula 1

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• There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Light, Two

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.274, Univ of California Press

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• The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

  Akbar S. Ahmed

  Political, World, Might

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• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Bird, Cages, Lines

  "The Amazing Success Story of ‘Spiri Who?’" by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1970.

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• You must fight social media fire with social media water.

  Jay Baer

  Fighting, Fire, Water

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• Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

  Brian Solis

  Technology, Psychology, Marketing

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• People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

  Ted Koppel

  Jobs, People, Stories

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• On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Men, Age, Clay

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Library”

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• We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

  Howard Zinn

  Time, Children, War

  "The Old Way of Thinking". The Progressive, November 2001.

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• No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Government, Censorship

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

  James Madison

  Errors, Humanity, Abuse

  James Madison, Thomas Jefferson (1826). “Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky”, p.51

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• It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Money, Information Flow, Ideas

  "Intrinsic Motivation Models Lead To Business Success" by Marty Zwilling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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• If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

  Pope John Paul II

  Communication, Mean, Responsibility

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• I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

  Rowan Williams

  Communication, Democracy, Common

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

  Aliza Sherman

  Being Yourself, Communication, Tools

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