Media Quotes - Page 29

• 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 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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• American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

  Upton Sinclair

  Class, Journalism, Rich

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.150, Open Road Media

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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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• In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.

  Pope Francis

  Creating, Effort, Inspire

  Message of Pope Francis for the 48th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. June 1, 2014.

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• There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Odds, Like Love, Long

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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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• ... Their power to see environments as they really are.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Environment

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Dad, Men, Singing

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Dark, Men

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Acting, Pairs

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, Writing, Order

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• We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Responsible, Involved

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Eye, Feet

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Clay, Stones

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing

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• Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Taken, Wire, Vacuums

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• The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Favour, Form, Typing

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Plato, Writing, Culture

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• Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case, not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.

  Richard Posner

  Children, Government, Games

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• The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

  Jimmy Reid

  Exercise, People, Democracy

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

  Carol Roth

  Thinking, Giving, Way

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• I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage - all we could have asked. ... For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every republican on earth does that.

  Pat Buchanan

  Kids, Heaven, Doe

  "Think Again: How Conservatives Treat Media Bias (Hint: Confusingly)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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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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