media quotes

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I make pop culture.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

The press is the enemy.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

We’re news junkies in my house.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.