Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McCain

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

John Hockenberry

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

John Hodgman

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

John Hodgman

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

John Hodgman

It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.

Ralph Nader

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

Ralph Nader

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

Michelle Malkin

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.

Michael Perlis

Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.

Michael Pitt

I don't really even know what Twitter is. I know that might sound wierd to some people. I don't use social media. I make music, so I use social media...it's more helpful for me when I'm making music than as an actor.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.

John von Neumann

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

John Rocker

The media loves nothing more than when there is a racial scandal or something. Racism, bigotry, these are just such hot button issues, and the media loves it.

John Stossel

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

John Sayles

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives? To which my response was, Well, I hope so.

John Sayles

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

John Pilger

More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

John Podhoretz

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

Mark Pincus

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

Nick Harkaway

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

Nick Carter

I sometimes miss the days where I could fly a little more under the radar. There was no social media in the '90s, and it was a different world. I also miss TRL - that was always a blast!

Seth MacFarlane

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

Seth Godin

So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.

Seth Godin

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Seth Godin

The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.

Seth Godin

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Sloane Stephens

The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.

Sky Ferreira

A lot of social media saved my ass, so I'm totally for it.

Michelle Shocked

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

Michelle Shocked

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

Michael Shannon

People are morons. I don't do any social media stuff. I have people telling me all the time, "You should do Twitter, you should do this, you should get on Facebook." Are you insane? I'm not doing any of that crap. I stay the hell off that thing. Every once in a while, I send a business email, and that's it.

Michael Moore

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.