T Quotes
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“The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.”
“The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.”
Source: National Velvet
“The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.”
Source: Season Ticket
“The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.”
“The press can’t do shit about corruption in Africa without the masses. Everybody knows the offices that ask for bribes and everybody continues to pay. So reporting an incident of corruption in the media is like announcing that the sun rises in the morning.”
Source: Roses in the Rainbow
“The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.”
“The press creates its own magnified version of an event. The more intense the feeding frenzy for exclusives, the more the story changes from reporter to reporter until what the public gets is a distorted version of the truth. It’s as if the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle were at work everytime a large story unfolds in the media, so that the presence of the media itself creates, changes, and redefines the story. You always have to be wary of what the media reports because the media itself has created parts of the story.”
Source: The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
“The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.”
“The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola Boof.”
“The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.”
“The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.”
“The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.”
“The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.”
“The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.”
“The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.”
“The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.”
“The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians.”
“The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power.”
“The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.”
“The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.”
“the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.”
Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus
“The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.”
“The press has not done a fair job of exposing his [Bernie Sanders] policy. He has not had the television time that he deserves or that Hillary Clinton has. He has not had the ability to connect with black people in the mass way.”
“The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.”
Source: The Wrong Type of Values
“The Press. -- If we consider how even to-day all great political transactions glide upon the stage secretly and stealthily; how they are hidden by unimportant events, and seem small when close at hand; how they only show their far-reaching effect, and leave the soil still quaking, long after they have taken place; -- what significance can we attach to the Press in its present position, with its daily expenditure of lung-power in order to bawl, to deafen, to excite, to terrify? Is it anything more than an everlasting false alarm, which tries to lead our ears and our wits into a false direction?”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human 1-2
“The Press in 1914 had no Cinema, no Radio, and no Politics: so the painter could really become a 'star'. There was nothing against it. Anybody could become one, who did anything funny. And Vorticism was replete with humour, of course; it was acclaimed the best joke ever. Pictures, I mean oil-paintings, were 'news'. Exhibitions were reviewed in column after column. And no illustrated paper worth its salt but carried a photograph of some picture of mine or of my 'school', as I have said, or one of myself, smiling insinuatingly from its pages.”
Source: Blasting and Bombardiering: Autobiography
“The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight.”
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.”
“The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
“The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.”
“The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.”
“The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.”
“The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.”
“The press is hostile to Donald Trump, they always will be. And Donald Trump is happy to return the favor. And you know what, he actually has the upper hand in that relationship.”
“The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. X (in 12 Volumes): Correspondence and Papers 1803-1807
“The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.”
“The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.”
“The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.”
“The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.”
“The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.”
“The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.”
“The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.”
“The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.”
“The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.”
“The press is our chief ideological weapon.”
Source: The great mission of literature and art
“The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we eventually get sicker.”
“The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.”
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
“The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.”