Media Quotes
- Page 11I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
Jesse Jackson
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
Al Franken
Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?
Tony Brown
Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.
John Hall
Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.
David Coverdale
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Amy Goodman
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
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
Ron Suskind
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
Bill Cosby
But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.
Shawn Fanning
Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
Joichi Ito
The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.
Kevin Eubanks
In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.
Mark Lloyd
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Michel De Certeau
Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
Ani DiFranco
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.
Mike Quade
I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.
Cokie Roberts
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
Tony Blair
It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.
Chuck Klosterman
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
Jurgen Habermas
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Christopher Lasch
The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.
Mike Myers
In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
Bryan Robson
Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.
Kevin Richardson
Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.
Jennifer Granholm