Media Quotes

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
-Malcolm X

"Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing."
-Robert Bresson

"Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper."
-Charles Peguy

"All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level."
-William Bernbach

"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch."
-Corazon Aquino

"Now, they have invented a new war to fire our passion and capture imagination…The War on Christmas. It's a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane."
-Jules Carlysle

"The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers."
-John Vinocur

"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness."
-Eric Sevareid

"This is a truly historical meeting of the established and new media."
-Les Moonves

"I'm disappointed. With as much information as the media has provided, I would have thought there would be some movement one way or another."
-Charlie Deaton

"In Apple's case, you can credit the media and all those folks who said the [OS X] platform was inherently secure [for drawing attention to it]."
-Pete Lindstrom

"A lot of times, the preseason gets discredited by the fans and media. It helps so much to get that momentum going into the season."
-Dane Looker

"He's telling me what's really going on. The media has gotten a lot right, but there's a lot we know that reporters can't know."
-Chad Topp

"A free and independent press is critical to the functioning of a democracy, and I am concerned about any actions which may erode the independence of the Iraqi media."
-John W. Warner

"There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle."
-Bill Moyers

"People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media."
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Eighty dollars a share is certainly a fair price for this business that we suspect is not nearly as damaged as the media coverage would suggest. It becomes increasingly difficult for J&J to follow Boston's lead on price."
-Dhulsini De Zoysa

"I already know that. I'll be talking to the police about that, not to the media."
-Douglas Green

"It was a complete and utter frustration. It was an act done because we are a new media company, and we need data lines to come in here, and we couldn't get one for a period of six months."
-Owen Davis

"I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think."
-Naveen Andrews

"A lot of people (are) asking about Madonna on the media side. I understand that. She's a huge name."
-Paul Tollett

"We really have to look at how (media are) being used, and what (children) are being exposed to. There's a lot of mixed messages out there."
-Theresa Russo

"I thought the local media outlets did a good job of covering it in advance."
-Aaron Anderson

"We've been let down by our politicians, by the media, so we really have to take things into our own hands."
-Dan Dewalt

"Warhol was using the media as a tool to do his art. He wasn't manipulating it. He was absolutely fascinated with it."
-Francesco Bonami

"We're hoping that the gap between amateur creativity and creativity funded by large, centralized media companies will probably continue to shrink."
-Brian Clarke

"It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians."
-Pat Robertson

"With the New York media, it's either going to be good or bad and nothing in between."
-Mike Heimerdinger