“Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.” ChildrenUseKidsWatchesMediaTelevisionAmountPeriodsMassiveObesityCorrelationObese Book:Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong Source: Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong
“The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.” KindImportantRecordsMediaAmountBecomingAvailableVideoAlternatives Author:Jerry Garcia
“I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.” BitsNumbersMediaAmountConceptsAgreePassionateProportionWikipedia Author:Jimmy Wales
“There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. I'm not sure that I agree. But I am sure that if you were talking about cutting the amount of money spent in politics, the media would have a strong interest in opposing you, because they make an enormous amount of money from political advertisements.” PeopleIfsNeedsPoliticalStrongInterestTalkingCuttingMediaAmountAgreeEnormousNot SureOpposingAdvertisements Author:Lawrence Lessig
“[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter” WorldWantImportantMatterMediaHugeAmountInternetInnovationLifetimeAvailableWideWhat You WantRapidsRubbishEncyclopediaWorld Wide Web Author:Richard Dawkins
“I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.” Has BeensMediaAmountCitizensDeserveFairsUglyTrialsAmerican CitizensMisinformationMaliciousFair Trial Author:Michael Jackson
“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.” PeopleYearsWellsLooksSaidStoriesGuyFourMediaAmountNewsCaughtPlusFour YearsThis GuyCorrectionsNews Media Author:Jayson Blair
“I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter.” IfsThinkingFeelsMatterHelpingRememberSocialMediaAmountBalanceThousandBirdPhonesSocial MediaVacationEmailJust Do ItWork Life BalanceLife BalanceCuckoosWork And Life Balance Author:Maria Bamford
“The huge amount of love and support I've been receiving, whether it's in the fashion industry itself or on social media, truly warms my heart and motivates me to be a voice for all the women out there.” HeartSocialVoiceSupportMediaFashionHugeIndustryAmountMy HeartSocial MediaReceivingFashion Industry Author:Maria Borges
“Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.” ThinkingTryingMadeEndsRealityEasyHoursDifferencesFailingMediaChangedAmountPressesHearingAccomplishOilLocalsReleaseThirtyGasStationsOrganizeAdjustmentCongressmanGas StationsAccomplish NothingOil PricePress Release Author:Joel Miller
“If you really like a movie these days, you don't watch it once, especially if you're a kid, because you have a different relationship with media. You expect that to be on your hard drive, and it will look just as good, any time you watch it. It's not like VHS, where you watched it a certain amount of times and it started fading away.” IfsLooksDifferentHardKidsCertainWatchesMediaAmountThese DaysFadingFading AwayDifferent Relationships Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“I`ve been spending a fair amount of time in the recesses of white nationalist, white supremacist social media online areas, what called itself is the "alt right", which is sort of the euphemistic term they use for what is essentially modern day white supremacy. And they are some of [Donald]Trump - this has been reported from the beginning but they are very excited about [anti-Muslim] proposal.” Has BeensUseSocialTermWhiteModernMediaTrumpAmountAreasFairsExcitedSocial MediaSpendingOnlineWhite SupremacyProposalSupremacyModern DayRecess Author:Chris Hayes
“When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, "Where's your other album?"” PeopleThinkingCertainAttentionMediaAmountAlbums Author:Beth Ditto
“You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.” FeelsAgeSocialMediaGoes OnAmountLuckySocial MediaIntenseBullyingNegativity Author:Natalie Portman
“The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot of media to go through - instead of fashion spreads, which informed The Eye Has To Travel, we had art, which was fantastic. I was spoiled by the access we had to these incredible archives and footage.” ArtEyeChallengesMediaFashionMaterialsAmountIncrediblesSpreadAccessFantasticSpoiledArchives Author:Lisa Immordino Vreeland
“I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence. It used to be hard copy and now it's a very limited amount of actual letters people write. So it's mostly email.” PeopleWritingI CanHardUseUsedSocialMy OwnEffectsMediaAmountLettersSocial MediaUsed To BeCopiesEmailCorrespondence Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” WayShouldDoeMediaNew YorkTelevisionAmountNewsRadioDamageStationsUnbelievableNew York TimesRadio StationsTelevision And Radio Author:Jackie Mason
“Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing what those people in the mainstream media should have been doing. Do your job! Subject these political candidates to the same amount of scrutiny that you are now trying to compensate for with the incoming Trump administration!” PeopleShouldTryingHas BeensJobsPoliticalSubjectsMediaTrumpAmountShould HaveCriticsConservativeAdministrationOpponentsCandidatesMainstreamShould Have BeenScrutinyMainstream MediaDissidentsStalwartPolitical Candidates Author:Michelle Malkin