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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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• Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Country, Government, Views

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• Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

  John Stossel

  Talking, Water, Asking

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• Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Simple, Reality

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• There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Class, Ivy

  "DRUDGE MATCH: Camille Paglia Gets Intimate With The Shady Wizard Of The Web". Interview with Matt Drudge, freerepublic.com. November 6, 2003.

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• In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two types of national news networks. The first is Fox, the fiendishly opinionated, Roger-Ailes-manipulated Republican Party organ. The second is the non-Fox establishment, serenely gliding above the political fray on a magic carpet of nonpartisan open-mindedness.

  L. Brent Bozell III

  Party, Self, Two

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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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• Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As Janet Malcolm said in another context, 'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.'

  Martin Walker

  Stupid, Confusion, Doe

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• Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

  Jon Corzine

  Politics, Littles, Monkeys

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• 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

  War, President, Alabama

  "Ballad Of The French Berets". www.anncoulter.com. August 18, 2004.

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• The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards - I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox - but they're going to portray - they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as the young and dynamic and optimistic and all this. There's going to be this glow about them this summer, that is going to be worth - collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points.

  Evan Thomas

  Winning, Thinking, Talking

  "FOX News Watch" with Eric Burns, www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2004.

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• I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Thinking, Age, Television

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• Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Civilization, Would Be, News

  Post by Glenn Reynolds, pjmedia.com. March 24, 2006.

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• How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

  John Nolte

  Stars, Party, Lines

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• And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Growing Up, War, People

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Thinking, Different

  "Bernie Goldberg on Possibility of Hillary Clinton Challenging Obama in 2012". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

  Tommy Docherty

  Journalism, Said, Havens

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• I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

  Tony Hawk

  Skateboarding, Different, Wanted

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• To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

  H. L. Mencken

  Average, Belief, Newspapers

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• It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, News, Coverage

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• Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

  George Carlin

  Running, Independent, Class

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• The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Pages, Advertising, Argument

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Mean, Class

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.731, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.

  Naomi Klein

  Impact, Style, Sweatshops

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• Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what they like only as long as their bosses like what they say. They are free to produce what they want if their product remains within acceptable political boundaries. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when your stray that you feel the restraining tug.

  Michael Parenti

  Independent, Thinking, Editors

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.150, City Lights Books

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