Media Quotes - Page 14

• How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.

  Joey Barton

  Football, Hate, Lying

  Joey Barton @Joey7Barton, twitter.com. August 21, 2012.

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• We allow folks to divide us. I don't like this Republican/Democrat, left/right, radical/not radical division that is created by folks, particularly and unfortunately in the media. What happened to being a self-reliant, God-fearing American, that loved freedom and the constitution? That's the way I want to be labeled.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Self, Insightful

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• Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would you like to go outside to a 1st Amendment zone? No! So did it make sense to have a 1st Amendment zone in Nevada? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. If we're talking about one of the most egregious things that happened down there, it was the 1st Amendment zone in Nevada.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Couple, Talking

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• I am saddened by the release by a national media outlet of my opponent's involvement in pornography. I strongly condemn the release of this information. Our campaign was aware of this information several months ago, and made a very determined decision to not use or disperse this information in any way, shape,or form.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Decision, Insightful

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• Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

  Pete du Pont

  Running, Age, Radio

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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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• [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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• Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Philosophy, News, Television

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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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• 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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• You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

  Lee De Forest

  Children, My Children, Made

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• Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

  Megyn Kelly

  Giving, Opinion, Arguing

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• Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

  Matt Drudge

  Sea, News, Television

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Political, Together

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.23, Seven Stories Press

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• The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Views, Two

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Adventure, Support

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.30, Seven Stories Press

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• Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Democracy, Trying

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.33, Seven Stories Press

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• In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Years, People

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.57, Seven Stories Press

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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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• The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Pages, Advertising, Argument

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and wares; while at the same time it fosters, through its antics, the illusion of a free circulation of ideas and opinions - not unlike jesters in a tyrant's court.

  Robert Faurisson

  Tyrants, Ideas, World

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• Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As Janet Malcolm said in another context, 'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.'

  Martin Walker

  Stupid, Confusion, Doe

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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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• By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Cat, Social Values, Views

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• By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.

  Johnny Cash

  Country, Song, Sadness

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