“There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of all men. . . . This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone understood. He has never been listened to. . . . That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.” MenAmericaDesireLiteratureBlackVoiceWhiteAttentionAliveHeardMediaObjectsCommunicationActivityUnderstoodRageLegislationDelivery Author:June Jordan
“I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of the powerless is in some danger of not being heard in the elite discourses we now have in the mainstream media.” ThinkingWellsUseVoiceResponsibilityHeardMediaDangerJournalistElitesMainstreamReportersDiscoursePowerlessMainstream Media Author:Pankaj Mishra
“The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.” SocialHeardMediaSocial MediaNoisy Book:SEO Help: 20 Semantic Search Steps that Will Help Your Business Grow Source: SEO Help: 20 Semantic Search Steps that Will Help Your Business Grow
“When you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.” TryingHeardMediaConflictConsumersNot InterestedSuppliers Author:Ian McLeod
“There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"” YearsEnoughSchoolHeardMediaPleasePearlsHarborsPearl Harbor Day Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“Mr. John Coleman, who invented the Weather Channel, represents over 30,000 scientists who cannot get their voices heard on the main stream media, since they hold a viewpoint on Global Warming that runs opposite to the government and media template. The voices of reason are being suppressed.” ReasonGovernmentRunningVoiceHeardMediaOppositesScientistWeatherStreamsGlobal WarmingViewpointsVoice Of Reason Author:Peter DeGraaf
“The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingKindHas BeensSocialVoiceAbilityHeardMediaInformationCommunicationDevelopmentAreasEntertainmentSocial MediaAccessCollaborationEfficiencyAccess To Information Author:Bill Gates
“In my dream I hadn't arrived at this street yet; this was just downloaded to me as this woman mentioned only the street name. It reminded me of hearing the words "Disneyland" and how we are instantly filled with joy and recognize it as a happy place full of fun. The words "Media Spring Street" created a movement of its own. When people just simply heard "Media Spring Street" it was like catching a wave of God and you wanted to get there as fast as you could!” PeopleDreamWantedJoyNamesFunHeardStreetsMediaMovementSpringFilledWaveHearingCatchingDisneylandHappy Place Author:Julie Smith
“For me, the part of reporting that's the most rewarding and energizing is just hearing directly from people whose voices haven't often been heard, or incorporated into mainstream media. That stuff is really, really gratifying, and so to realize that you could make a career of that part of it, that appealed to me.” PeopleStuffVoiceRealizingCareersHeardMediaHavensHearingMainstreamMainstream MediaEnergizing Author:Sarah Stillman
“We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.” ThinkingNeedsWritingStoriesSpiritualFightingProcessHurtHappenedHeardMediaErasMonopoly Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.” YearsFirstsNamesBlackNumbersKnownEnemyHeardMediaSouthMythSouth AfricaSecrecyApartheidRumoursPublic EnemiesMadiba Author:Kumi Naidoo
“In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.” ThinkingYearsMayMadeMightArtistSongSoundVisionMillionsRecordsHeardMediaParticularReaderSixYears AgoBlowReviewersPersonal Vision Author:Van Morrison
“The number of the opposition has certainly increased [in Iran]. There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.” VoiceNumbersHeardMediaOppositionIran Author:Akbar Ganji
“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.” TryingSocialCan DoHeardMediaInternetSocial MediaAvenues Author:Keith Sweat
“ISIS is not Islam. No, I'm not saying that. The government says that. The left, the media says it. ISIS is not Islam. You've heard Obama say that. ISIS is making a mockery of Islam. In fact, what you really need to understand about the way our government looks at Islam, they look at Islam as anti-terror as well. Islam is anti-terrorism. Therefore, no terrorism can actually be Islamic.” WayNeedsWellsLooksFactsGovernmentLeftHeardMediaIslamTerrorTerrorismIslamicIsisMockeryAnti Terrorism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.” ThinkingYearsLastsSocialRecordsFiveHeardGroupsHonestMediaBandSixSevenSocial MediaEightBeing HonestIt Is What It Is Author:Joe Louis Walker