Media Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

  Joe Scarborough

  Troops, News, Today

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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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• What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

  James T. Walsh

  Believe, Power, Symbolism

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

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Fronts

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• We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is now a scourge that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife. I said, let's solve this.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Community, Care

  "Feathers Fly As Top Turkish Officials Square Off Over Twitter Ban". "The Two-Way", www.npr.org. March 21, 2014.

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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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• The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

  Adam McKay

  Crush, Running, Government

  "What the Hell is Going On?" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2009.

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

  Tina Yothers

  Concerned

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• There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Writing, Doubt

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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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• 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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• The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Anomalies, Venture, Incredibles

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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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• 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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• I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

  Jesse Helms

  Years, States, Late

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• The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

  William Kristol

  Powerful, Conservative, Excuse

  "'What Liberal Media?'". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2003.

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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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• Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Priorities, Focus

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.14, Crown Archetype

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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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• Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

  Ryan Holmes

  Skills, People, Needs

  "Turning Your Passion Into Your Position: Social Media for the New Job Market" by Ryan Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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