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“You see that a lot in movies, and today you see it more in movies that are made, because I feel more movies are made towards groups than towards individuals, and they're made more for mass media than for sitting in a movie house allowing it to happen.”

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Author:Liv Ullmann

“To have or not to have [chemical weapons] is a possibility, but to depend on what media says is nonsense, or to depend on some of the reports of the intelligence is nonsense and that was proven when they invaded Iraq ten years ago and they said "Iraq has stockpiles of WMD" and it was proven after the invasion that this was false ; it was fraud. So, we can't depend on what one magazine wrote.”

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Author:Bashar al-Assad

“We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.”

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Author:Bashar al-Assad

“This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn't have it. He didn't present it because he doesn't have it, Kerry doesn't have it. No one in your administration has it. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day.”

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Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I have to be very clear and very honest. I'm not asking [ the American officials] to believe if they don't want to believe. This is reality, I'm telling you the reality from our country. We live here, we know what is happening, and they have to listen to people here. They cannot listen only to their media or to their research centers. They don't live here ; no one lives here but us.”

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Author:Bashar al-Assad

“There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that in fact the South Africans are there at the invitation of Britain, because Britain is hesitating to remove them. Hence there is a need for us to combine forces and demand through all political platforms, through all media, the withdrawal of South African troops and action, definite action, by Britain to get those South African troops out.”

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Author:Robert Mugabe

“Even with social media and where we are...everything is about the look.”

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Author:Pusha T

“Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.”

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Author:Neil Young

“American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“All the media is anymore is the Democrat Party's agenda, the Democrat Party's political desires and objectives presented as "the news" and also presented as popularly supported by the American people.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.”

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Author:Jackie Mason

“Social media are fundamental to communicate and understand what happens in the world. It's a point of view and an immediate commentary.”

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Author:Franca Sozzani

“Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“One Rockette, who's probably a lug head, doesn't even know which end's up or down, ends up making news, and the media loves to present it.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.”

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Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.”

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Author:Robert Hass

“Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.”

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Author:Keith Sweat

“There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.”

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Author:Keith Sweat

“You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.”

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Author:Susan Rice

“I think one of the real issues that we're faced with is how we consume news, how the media is perceived, how fake news is gaining a degree of currency without criticism that is dangerous, in my judgement.”

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Author:Susan Rice

“It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.”

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Author:Susan Rice

“I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I've always found it sort of hilarious, and occasionally horrifying, how these images [in mass media] impact us, and especially when it comes to love and sex and relationships, I think we sometimes develop unrealistic expectations.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.”

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Author:Megyn Kelly

“The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not focus enough on the fact that the Fourth Amendment is on life support and that we need a return to transparency in government.”

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Author:Nat Hentoff

“The media ignores what is really going on.”

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Author:Nat Hentoff

“You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“I play basketball. I can't control the media, the way I play. I can't control all of it.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.”

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Author:Megyn Kelly

“I do worry about the press and a President Trump. You know, I think it's dangerous the entire de-legitimization that he's engaged in against all of the media because the people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they do need us. You know, they need good, strong skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is, whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.”

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Author:Megyn Kelly

“The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, "I don't know what to believe." There are no checks and balances in quality control.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“I treasure the fact there's media freedom, but with that goes responsibility. I think that there should be a self-regulatory organization and that they should start to think about standards. Because I think a lot of people say, "I don't know how to read what is true versus somebody else's interpretation."”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“With the media, we don't know what's true, and we don't have radical transparency because we're seeing everything through somebody else's eyes. There's no other industry that has as much power and as much freedom and as little quality control. I can't imagine how anyone could not think that's a problem.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“I don't think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility. There's distortion, and it's hurting our society. And as a result of that, there will be forces that, one way or another, are going to naturally bring that into equilibrium.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“I think the media argues all the time with itself.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day.”

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Author:Tweet

“Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.”

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Author:Vivek Shraya

“I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

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