Media Quotes - Page 6

• I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.

  Phil Donahue

  Thinking, Emergencies

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 24, 2005.

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• All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, People, Decision

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• I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

  Kristen Stewart

  People, Able, Way

  "Kristen Stewart Interview: Vampire's Girl Turns Rock Rebel". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 29, 2010.

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• I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

  Sting

  Children, Real, People

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• The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

  Tom Stoppard

  Might, Pressure, Different

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• The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Christian, Wonder, Satan

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• When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Church, Twisted, Spending

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• Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

  Matt Taibbi

  Trying, News, Advertising

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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• First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Firsts, Microscopes, First Lady

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• Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.

  Daniel Tammet

  Happy Life, Autism, Negative

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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Home

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• You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

  Yani Tseng

  Sports, Practice, Preparation

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• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Goal, Roi

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• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Running, Heart, Mean

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• I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

  Johnny Vegas

  Thinking, Editors, Dawn

  "Tears of a clown". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2007.

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• I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

  Jesse Ventura

  Government, Way, Mainstream

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• Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Wikileaks, Done

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2012). “63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

  Jesse Ventura

  Children, Minnesota, Governors

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• Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

  Dwyane Wade

  Might, Social, Stores

  "Dwyane Wade Told Us Why He Wears Glasses With No Lenses" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

  Jim Wallis

  Faith, Religious, Gay

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• I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

  Lil Wayne

  Believe, Inspiration, Albums

  "Watch Lil Wayne Bowling With Katie Couric For Grammy Special!" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. February 02, 2009.

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Honesty, Simple

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

  Jay Baer

  Inspirational, Peers, Social

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• A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

  Walter Lippmann

  Privilege, Urban, Complicated

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• The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either of those things.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Government, Custodians, Facts

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