“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveStillsSometimesCharacterValuesAsksMoralOpinionStruggleIssuesMediaResponsibleDon't BelieveCensorship Author:Katey Sagal
“Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?” ThinkingShouldMadeMatterBigsTodayLeftIssuesGroupsMediaNewsYesterdayStatementsCommentMainstreamDictatorScrewsIdioticMainstream MediaChavezVenezuelans Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“The media loves nothing more than when there is a racial scandal or something. Racism, bigotry, these are just such hot button issues, and the media loves it.” IssuesMediaRacismHotBigotryButtonsScandal Author:John Rocker
“I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingCareCultureIssuesAwarenessMediaExampleMovementNeededMovedStrategyFeministLgbtRepresentationPopular CultureCulture Change Author:Ai-jen Poo
“The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.” MenWritingMindHumansReasonWould BeLawPurposeSoundLibertyIssuesSubjectsMediaCrimeGeniusPureSpeechEmptyConstitutionPressesPunishmentEmpiresVenturePersecutionAttorneyElbowsHuman Reason Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
“You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but the words will be all yours. You can create the context. You can make sure that all issues are addressed. You can take issue with individuals or the media as a whole. Your words, your message.” NeedsWritingLittlesWholeIndividualIssuesMediaMessagesExplain Yourself Author:Mark Cuban
“Regarding social media, I really dont understand what appears to be the general populations lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey its them, not me, so whatever.” SocialIssuesMediaInternetConcernPopulationSocial MediaHeyPrivacy Author:Axl Rose
“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
“Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.” SelfFactsStoriesViewsIssuesOne ThingMediaNewsOrganizationTransformationVariousJournalistServingFraudBiasTabooColumnsIdeologicalEditorialsSelf ServingMedia BiasNews StoriesNews Reporting Author:Thomas Sowell
“The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.” ThinkingMenMayTwoRealEnoughFactsSidesIssuesMediaTenConflictFormulasPremisesManufacturingTwo SidesPros And ConsNewsworthy Author:Gloria Steinem
“Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.” StatesTodayChristianAmericaUsedSpeakChurchReligiousSilenceIssuesMediaCrySeparationHumanistChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateSpeaks OutHue Book:The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west
“The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.” HappensChristianReligiousViewsPrinciplesIssuesOne ThingMediaFirmException Author:Francis Schaeffer
“Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.” RealIssuesMediaGoes OnMassFunctionMajorityCongressGossipClueMass MediaSensationalism Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.” ThinkingRealIssuesProgressMediaDiseaseComfortableEntertainment Author:Anita Roddick
“While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.” NationsInterestDecisionIssuesMediaJudgingConstitutionAgendasBehalf Author:Fred W. Friendly
“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
“Computer games are like any other form of media and entertainment - you have to exercise some moderation. In the same way you can invest a lot of time in a computer game, you can invest a lot of time in watching TV or browsing the Web. So it's an issue of recognizing that this is something you should consume in moderation.” WayShouldFormGamesIssuesMediaTvsExerciseComputerEntertainmentModerationRecognizingWatching TvComputer GamesBrowsing Author:Frank Pearce
“If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.” IfsPersonsThreeSportsVoiceCasesIssuesTeamMediaEventsBansAnnouncingSporting EventsCommissioners Author:Al Bernstein
“What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.” PeopleWayCertainBeliefRealizingOpinionIssuesMediaPerspectiveSubtleScareManipulatePresentingHighlighting Author:Oliver Stone
“This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.” MeanImportantCountryWholeAmericaWealthClassIssuesEconomicMiddleMediaPercentBottomDisappearIncomeCorporateMiddle ClassEconomic SystemsImportant IssuesRigged Author:Bernie Sanders
“When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.” PeopleWorldWayHardWholeHandsThreeAbilityWhiteIssuesFocusMediaDogMissingTvsAdvantagePoliceWhole WorldActivistCastingBullsTanksFragmentedNbcNew Media Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“In terms of media, we did not get the kind of media attention that somebody like a Donald Trump got, because media is not necessarily interested in the issues facing the middle class, more interested in attacks in personality. So I think there were a lot of reasons.” ThinkingKindReasonTermAttentionClassIssuesMiddleMediaPersonalityTrumpMiddle Class Author:Bernie Sanders
“I don't understand why it's the fault of the media for focusing on an issue that Mike Pence are crediting Donald Trump for bringing to the fore.” IssuesMediaTrumpFaultsMike Author:Jake Tapper
“Donald Trump is going to focus - I know the media wants to focus on that one issue. Donald Trump will articulate a policy about how we deal with that population” KnowsWantDealsIssuesFocusMediaPolicyTrumpPopulation Author:Mike Pence
“The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.” PeopleHandsStrongIssuesMediaPerceptionAgendasStrong Hands Author:Rob Lowe
“It's the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.” RealActorsIssuesMediaCampaignsLifestyleFactorsPresidentialAbortionIsolatedHomelessDeficitIncidentsPresidential Campaign Author:Rob Lowe
“Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.” PersonsDemocracyIssuesMediaVoteElectionCorporateDiscussionBuyingVotersBillionaireSuppressionOligarchyVoter Suppression Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“One out of five voters voted on this, and 70 percent of the issues that people voted on issues and they thought the media was inventing the controversy. It is no like they didn't hold him accountable - the Supreme Court is number one.” PeopleNumbersIssuesFiveMediaPercentCourtSupremeVotersSupreme CourtControversyInventing Author:Mary Matalin
“I think one of the real issues that we're faced with is how we consume news, how the media is perceived, how fake news is gaining a degree of currency without criticism that is dangerous, in my judgement.” ThinkingRealIssuesMediaDangerousDegreesNewsCriticismJudgementFakeCurrency Author:Susan Rice