Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Baudrillard

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.

Jayson Blair

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

Jay Griffiths

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

Jay Griffiths

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

Carly Fiorina

I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?

Mindy Kaling

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Mike Quade

I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

Kumi Naidoo

I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.

Kim Basinger

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

Kevin Drum

Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

Julia Child

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? ... I, for one, would much rather swoon over a few thin slices of prime beefsteak, or one small serving of chocolate mousse, or a sliver of foie gras than indulge to the full on such nonentities as fat-free gelatin puddings.

Murray Rothbard

Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to Carter's downfall.

Milton Babbitt

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

Milos Forman

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

Mike Schmidt

If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

Nathalie Sarraute

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

H. L. Mencken

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

Greg Louganis

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

J. Philippe Rushton

Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

Jessica Valenti

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

Glenn Reynolds

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

Gloria Allred

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers,

Jessica Savitch

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

Howard Rheingold

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

Howard Rheingold

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

Howard Fineman

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

Hugh Howey

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

Brad Soderberg

I could tell right away before the first media timeout that we were ready to defend.

I am not in a position to say yes or no. We know that media is reporting it, but we have no such information, or any details. We are still investigating this matter.

Emily Saliers

I try not to get personally involved in social media. It kind of makes me sick sometimes.

Emily Saliers

We're bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion.

Emily VanCamp

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

Jason Kilar

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.