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• The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Squinting, Inability, Depth

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• For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

  Margaret Mead

  History, Being Sad, Firsts

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• The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Past, Soul, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sisterhood, Gossip

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

  Noam Chomsky

  Politics, Anarchy, Dictator

  "Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1985.

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• Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Community, Way, Suits

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• With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Play, Top Down

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• Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Challenges, World, Faces

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• At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

  Michelle Malkin

  Land, White, Accountability

  "Obama's Cloud-Based Transparency" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 30, 2011.

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• In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

  Michelle Malkin

  Boys, Alaska, Dust

  "Chasing Sarah: The boys behind the bus" by Michelle Malkin, www.washingtonexaminer.com. May 31, 2011.

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• The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

  Salva Kiir Mayardit

  Responsibility, Social, Duty

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• The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

  Marissa Mayer

  Book, Tvs, Radio

  "Google's geeky queen of the search-o-sphere" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2006.

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• Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, School, Three

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

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• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  Danica McKellar

  Jobs, Math, Ucla

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• I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Magazines, Quiet, Darling

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• The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Letting Go, Technology, Men

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

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• One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Information, States

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.135, McClelland & Stewart

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• The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

  Michael Moore

  Want, Pumps, American Media

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• The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

  Michael Moore

  College, Men, Numbers

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• Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.

  Shemar Moore

  People, Able, Becoming

  "Shemar Moore Talks to S&A About Crowdfunding Over $630,000 for His Next Film, Color in Casting, and More". Interview With Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. August 6, 2013.

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• For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Long, People

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technique, Use, Propaganda

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  Al Franken

  Money, America, Stories

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.

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• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  L. Neil Smith

  People, Looks, Mass

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• Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

  George Carlin

  Running, Smart, Thinking

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