“I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.” MadeBigsActionDealsMediaCreationNotionBig DealSuspiciousBin Laden Author:Peter Bergen
“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.” PeopleWarMemoriesCasesIssuesGenerationsMediaCreationIgnoranceWestIraqManipulationMy GenerationIraq WarMedia ManipulationInvading Iraq Author:Julian Assange
“If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.” IfsThinkingTermLaughingMediaCreationConversationHarderRelateVersusDehumanizationBombardedBombarded By Author:Jehane Noujaim
“We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We're never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote 'The Wall' as an attack on stadium rock - and there's Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations.” IfsMadeBookRecordsRocksMediaCreationWallStonesLifetimeSentencesMaking MoneyArticlesRollingIgnoredPatheticSpoiledStadiumsRolling StonesGuinness Author:Roger Waters
“There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the narrative. Because there is a lot of bad African programming out there, and it is not helping matters.” PeopleMatterEnoughHelpingSpaceQualityMediaCreationNarrativeProgrammingPremium Author:Mo Abudu
“When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try.” WayTryingSeemsMediaCreationResearchPressureChinaVietnamMobilization Author:Duncan Green