Media Quotes - Page 38

• Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

  Drew Curtis

  Believe, Intelligent, Talking

  "Fark's Drew Curtis On How "News" Isn't News". Interview with Brian Montopoli, www.cbsnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.

  Margaret Chan

  Close Relationship

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• But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Attitude, Sea, Said

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• It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

  Rob Delaney

  People, Trying, Wake Up

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• So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

  Alexander Downer

  Views, People, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Block, Real, Stories

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Iraq, Als, Facts

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• The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

  Jared Diamond

  Book, Iraq, Giving

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• I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Mean, Imagination, Laughing

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• Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

  Mike DeWine

  Thinking, Amplification, Looks

  "CNN Newsroom". www.cnn.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.

  Nick Denton

  Want, Should

  "How can I sex up this blog business?" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. June 01, 2004.

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• I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

  Nick Denton

  Thinking, People, Cost

  "Search And Destroy" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. October 18, 2010.

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• One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

  Jessica Ennis

  Athlete, Thinking, Winning

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• Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

  Jon Fishman

  Thinking, Dancer, Musician

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• I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Mp3, Data

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

  Shawn Fanning

  Space, People, Peers

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• My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

  Ray Davies

  Girlfriend, Art, Boredom

  Song: State of Confusion

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• My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.

  Nelly

  Art, Hands, Laughing

  Song: Okay

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• Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Littles, Panic

  Song: Drift Away

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• No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

  Don Henley

  Art, People, Entertainment

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• Now my tapestry's unraveling.

  Carole King

  Art, Unraveling, Entertainment

  Song: Tapestry, Album: Tapestry, 1971

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• Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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• There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives? To which my response was, Well, I hope so.

  John Sayles

  People, Trying, Politics

  "Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.

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• Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Care, Entertainment

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

  David Bowie

  Fashion, Art, Squad

  Song: Fashion, 1980

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