Media Quotes - Page 17

• I don't see social media as lending my voice as much as I see it speaking my truth. If you look at my open letters, the one I wrote about Blue Ivy too - you see, I am always as the foundation, talking about us being a better humanity. I believe in that.

  India.Arie

  Believe, Blue, Talking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I am saddened by the release by a national media outlet of my opponent's involvement in pornography. I strongly condemn the release of this information. Our campaign was aware of this information several months ago, and made a very determined decision to not use or disperse this information in any way, shape,or form.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Decision, Insightful

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• We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

  Upton Sinclair

  Practice, America, News

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.236, Open Road Media

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• Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...

  Christopher Bailey

  Design, Burberry, Company

  "Burberry: The Best of British Digital Innovation" by Melanie Hick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

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• The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.

  Brian Solis

  Expectations, Landscape, Social

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• If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."

  Bob Woodward

  Literature, Politician, Euthanasia

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Russia, Baggage, Genocide

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• The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

  Andrew Keen

  Interesting, World, Way

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• The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.

  Ivanka Trump

  Country, Cities, Fundraising

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

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Sheep, Gdp, Want

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.

  Joey Barton

  Football, Hate, Lying

  Joey Barton @Joey7Barton, twitter.com. August 21, 2012.

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• We allow folks to divide us. I don't like this Republican/Democrat, left/right, radical/not radical division that is created by folks, particularly and unfortunately in the media. What happened to being a self-reliant, God-fearing American, that loved freedom and the constitution? That's the way I want to be labeled.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Self, Insightful

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• Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would you like to go outside to a 1st Amendment zone? No! So did it make sense to have a 1st Amendment zone in Nevada? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. If we're talking about one of the most egregious things that happened down there, it was the 1st Amendment zone in Nevada.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Couple, Talking

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• Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

  Pete du Pont

  Running, Age, Radio

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• [W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.

  Laurie Garrett

  Atmosphere, Suffering, Depth

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• Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Philosophy, News, Television

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• You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

  Lee De Forest

  Children, My Children, Made

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• Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

  Megyn Kelly

  Giving, Opinion, Arguing

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• People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Political, Together

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.23, Seven Stories Press

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• Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Democracy, Trying

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.33, Seven Stories Press

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• In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Years, People

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.57, Seven Stories Press

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• Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

  Jon Rappoport

  Believe, Mutts, Myth

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• Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had everything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

  W. H. Auden

  Teacher, Children, War

  "The Unknown Citizen" l. 22 (1939)

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• By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.

  Johnny Cash

  Country, Song, Sadness

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• I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

  Laura Bush

  Thinking, America, Reason

  "Laura Bush on U.S. Political Divide". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 5, 2004.

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