“Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.” ImportantSometimesVoiceAttitudeMediaWestWesternMythDebatePropagandaEncountersHypocrisyProseIranProgressiveMainstreamElegantGrindMainstream Media Author:Hooman Majd
“... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.” StatesInterestMediaPrivilegeDebateCorporateDiscussionAnalysisSupportiveFraming Book:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
“Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.” ThinkingWorldFirstsRunningSawsHappenedMediaChangedTelevisionDebate Author:Dylan McDermott
“The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.” WarGamesNamesMediaFootballFairsBaseballDebateAnalysisBoxingContestsAnalogiesTestosteroneFair Game Author:Jonathan Raymond
“By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.” GenerationsMediaPerspectiveGenderSexualityScreensDebateRepresentationLivelyYounger Generation Author:Laura Mulvey
“Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentProblemGrowsSoundMediaPoliticianConflictDiseaseConcernedComplexesCongressProfitDebateTendenciesDataAnalysisSensitivePrizeCooperationBitesStaffSymptomsDifferent PlacePartisansMaineSound BitesIncivility Author:Tom Allen
“Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions - "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?” PeopleLooksHas BeensTwoBookCareNumbersTalkingIssuesMediaTrumpLet MeMathDebateComicFallenInsultVillainComic BookCagesDon't TrustMarcosBen Carson Author:Ted Cruz
“Whether it's the internet, radio, television, there are always areas of debate, but you have to accept it. The media now has become an absolute monster.” AcceptingMediaTelevisionInternetAreasAbsolutesRadioDebateMonsters Author:Tony Pulis
“Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, bypassed the debate before the Iowa caucuses because he objected to the participation of moderator Megyn Kelly as well a press release defending her.Beyond the Trump tantrum, we wondered if this had something bigger to say about the state of the media and politics and how politics is practiced today.” IfsWellsStatesTodayMediaTrumpRepublicanBiggerPressesDebateReleaseParticipationIowaTantrumsCaucusPress Release Author:Michel Martin
“I do think whatever the short-term gain for [Donald]Trump might've been by skipping the Fox debate, it was also kind of - it could become a landmark moment. He has now showed the media that he doesn't need them and that he has the people behind him.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindMomentsMightTermBehindsMediaTrumpGainsDebateFoxesShort TermLandmarks Author:Ryan Grim
“He [Donald Trump] said in the debate - he said, gosh, I'm being audited for two years. Then he said three years. Then he said maybe five years. Listen, if there's a problem in his taxes, the voters have a right to know, because come September, October, the general election, folks in the media are going to make a heyday about any problems in his taxes.” IfsKnowsYearsSaidTwoProblemThreeFiveMediaTrumpTaxesElectionFolksDebateFive YearsTwo YearsVotersThree YearsSeptemberOctoberGeneral ElectionsHeyday Author:Ted Cruz
“We were telling, and frankly the media didn't take it seriously, during the time when we tried to point out that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was biased. She scheduled debates at times that didn't draw huge audiences, I believe, and many believe, because she didn't want Bernie to have a larger exposure to the voters.” WantBelieveI BelieveAudienceMediaHugeDrawsDebateVotersExposureBiased Author:Jonathan Tasini
“In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.” MayLongSaidIssuesMediaRepublicanLong TimeHappeningsElectionClimateClimate ChangeDebateRationalPrimariesCandidatesExceptionModeratesClimate Change Deniers Author:Noam Chomsky
“What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryStatesEnoughPartyOpinionMediaMassHappeningsVoteThirdsMajorityDebateOur CountryReformCandidatesAgendasSensibleMechanismMass MediaThird PartiesRedirection Author:Ralph Nader
“The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the two parties, which are corporations. We should have public presidential debates all over America run by public institutions.” ShouldTwoRunningAmericaPartyMediaShould HaveInstitutionsDebateCorporationsPresidentialPresidential Debate Author:Ralph Nader
“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.” LongCountryWhiteMediaTrumpCreatingNewsLong TimeHotDebateCyclesPhenomenonJuneDominatingCaptivatingAnnouncingCandidacy Author:Megyn Kelly
“If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know there's guys that say immigrants come here, and they create so much crime and they take jobs. There's multiple sides to every story.” IfsKnowsStoriesJobsGuySocialSidesMediaCrimeIgnoranceHotSocial MediaDebateImmigrationImmigrantsMultipleButtons Author:George Lopez