“Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.” WayArtTwoLawGirlHouseCitiesMediaProudTrackExceptionThickPigsDianaCertificatesGuineaGuinea Pigs Author:Peter York
“I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.” SaidSometimesRememberHouseWishResponsibilityClassMediaMovementMembersMassTradeLiftsSecretaryWorking ClassMass MediaOperatorsBroadcastersPrinter Author:Tony Benn
“The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.” PeopleWorldGivingTogetherHouseWhiteViewsMediaFieldsCongressOilWorking TogetherWhite HouseOil Field Author:Gore Vidal
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.” WorldPhilosophyPlayWisdomMotivationalBeautifulHouseChanceSpaceMediaCommunicationUniqueHungerIndividualityEntertainmentIntimateSurroundCaloriesEvery SecondConnectednessFresh Food Author:Charles Eisenstein
“I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.” RememberHouseSocialStreetsMediaSummerWindowGuitarSocial MediaAmplifiersSummer Time Author:John Mayer
“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.” PeopleHouseChangeMediaTelevisionHabitInventionPlumbingIndoor Plumbing Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.” WorldHouseMediaTelevisionIncludingRadioNewspapersMagazinesAround The WorldOperationsAgencyStationsControlledPublishingWireCiaPublishing HouseMagazine Publishing Author:Michael Parenti
“The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on the media to make its case to the public; the media need the White House to fill their airtime and news columns.” NeedsJobsOrderHouseWhiteCasesSuccessfulMediaDependsNewsBeing SuccessfulWhite HouseColumns Book:What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News Source: What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News
“Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.” IfsTryingYearsLooksKindDoeHardReasonFactsLyingFightingHouseSocialSecurityMediaRepublicanArgumentVoteMajorityDemocratCongressCardsWelfareImmigrantsNo ReasonIllegalThrowingSocial SecurityAttackingPaymentIllegal ImmigrantsAmnestyConcluding Author:Ann Coulter
“The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.” PeopleGivingCareHouseGivenWhiteTeamMediaPopulationChecksEach DayEtcOnlineWhite HouseSanityMultipleGoogleTopicsHighlightsNew MediaGoogle Search Author:Daniel Pfeiffer
“The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.” HouseWhiteInfluenceMediaCostElectionCongressEnormousCorporationsConcentrationWhite HouseEscalating Author:Noam Chomsky
“I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.” PeopleRealFeelingsRealityJobsHouseWhiteTalkingWonderClassStreetsMiddleMediaWallPercentQuittingMiddle ClassWhite HouseUnemploymentGood JobNotableTalking Heads Author:Jim Clifton
“We have rules in the house and a sticker chart for my kids to earn technology time. Maybe its because of the world I live in and work, that I don't see much of anything beneficial that comes out of social media for kids. Even though its how they communicate now, so you have to find the fine balance.” WorldKidsHouseSocialTechnologyMediaFineBalanceCommunicateSocial MediaBeneficialSticker Author:Gretchen Carlson
“In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television).” HomeNightHouseFunMediaTelevisionElectionCooksCaptains1960sCountyBallots Author:Edwin Diamond
“For example, because I'm a lapsed geologist, I followed the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 in great detail, amassing a huge number of links to news articles, blog posts, scientific papers, web cams, video and photos. That archive came to the attention of Chatham House, and they then commissioned me to research the way in which the media responded to the ash cloud crisis. I think that's the only time that my degree and my career have fully intersected, and it really was a lovely moment!” ThinkingWayMomentsHouseNumbersAttentionCareersMediaExampleHugeDegreesPaperNewsResearchCrisisCloudsDetailsLovelyVideoPostsLinksArticlesAshesPapersOnly TimeBlogsVolcanoesArchivesEruptionGeologistHuge Numbers Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“What's more important than the media, there's this thing called ObamaCare, which was President Obama's signature domestic achievement. It won Republicans the House in 2014 - 2010. It won Republicans the Senate in 2014.” ImportantHousePresidentMediaRepublicanAchievementPresident ObamaSenateObamacareSignatures Author:William Kristol
“But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.” DoneHomeGovernmentHouseMillionsMediaInstitutionsFoolishConsistentlyLendingHouse Prices Author:Warren Buffett
“The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they have a majority of the governors. And that's exciting. But for me, I think the lesson also is all the opportunities out there for women, increasingly in politics and media and public policy and government affairs - all the things we do here in Washington - that we still have to make choices, there are limits.” ThinkingWellsStillsStatesGovernmentChoicesOpportunityHouseMediaPolicyLessonsLimitsExcitingMajorityAffairExcuseDividedSenateGovernorsLegislaturePublic PolicyState LegislaturesDivided Government Author:Kellyanne Conway
“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.” FeelsMadeHappensTodayHouseIndividualGroupsMediaMassSittingAllowingMass Media Author:Liv Ullmann
“Right now, what my job is - pardon me? Those are just words. Right now, what my - my job is right now going beyond media conflicts and words is to say that Donald Trump, among other things, told the American people he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and right now Republicans in the House and Senate are doing just that.” PeopleJobsHouseSocialCuttingSecurityMediaTrumpRepublicanRight NowConflictSenateSocial SecurityPardonMedicareMedicaidPardon MeMedicare And Medicaid Author:John Lewis