Media Quotes - Page 22

• I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.

  Dee Snider

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  News

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.157, University of Texas Press

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• People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

  Roger Ebert

  Learning Something New, Small Numbers, Usa

  Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.432, University of Chicago Press

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• The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Years, Europe, Ideas

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• The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

  Jim Harrison

  Facts, Explosions, Interstate

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

  Kate Clinton

  Sports, Style, Wonderful

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Feb 25, 2015

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• 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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• When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

  John Lahr

  Delight, Notorious, Made

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• Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Benefits, Groups

  "Alain de Botton: a life in writing" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

  Susan Faludi

  People, Culture, Reactions

  "9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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• I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

  Bum Phillips

  War, Needs, News

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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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• When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.

  Michael Deaver

  Talking, Fountain, Wells

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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