Media Quotes - Page 21

• Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

  Jessica Valenti

  Voice, Feminist, Amplify

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• Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day.

  Jim Keith

  Country, Eugenics, Secret

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.17, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.

  John Updike

  Sports, Baseball, Fun

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• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Journalism, Glory, Newspapers

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

  Daniel Handler

  Horse, Mistake, People

  "The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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• I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.

  James Fallows

  Google, Levels, Company

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• The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.

  Michael Crichton

  Poor Quality, Doors, Information

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.

  Dee Snider

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

  George Steiner

  Impact, Vision, Events

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  News

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.157, University of Texas Press

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• The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Years, Europe, Ideas

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• The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

  Jim Harrison

  Facts, Explosions, Interstate

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

  E. B. White

  Roles, News, Lines

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• Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Real, Doe, News

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Benefits, Groups

  "Alain de Botton: a life in writing" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

  Susan Faludi

  People, Culture, Reactions

  "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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• Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Organization, May

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• When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.

  Michael Deaver

  Talking, Fountain, Wells

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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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• Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

  A. J. Liebling

  Men, He Man, Freedom Of The Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

  Bam Margera

  Pennsylvania, Riddle, Hospitals

  "The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.

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

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Fronts

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