“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.” ThinkingStatesLastsThreeHoursUnitedUnited StatesSawsWeekMinutesMediaAverageRadioVarietySurveysElectronic Media Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.” MenTwoLastsThreeMediaHe ManUnderstoodDecades Author:Anson Mount
“On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!” MenAgeLastsFoundMediaPressesPlasticLeafsPalmsClayLeather Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
“I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.” ThinkingYearsCountryLastsInterestMediaProductsMagazinesFiftyFortyJetLynchingMutilationEmmett Till Author:Charles Diggs
“The notion of people commenting on you, the notion of people saying things about you, people liking or disliking you and getting into your business, has become more of a reality for the general public over the last years, as people have dipped further into Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and social media.” PeopleYearsRealityLastsSocialMediaLike YouNotionSocial MediaLast YearInstagramGeneral Public Author:Eric Bana
“Why do you suppose that in the last 100 years technology has evolved a thousand times further than it has in the last 3,000 years? It's the level of souls that are incarnating. The older Atlantean souls are coming back. They have a natural affinity for communication, electronics, medicine, law and media.” YearsSoulLastsLawNaturalLevelsTechnologyMediaCommunicationThousandMedicineAncientComing BackAffinityElectronicsAncient EgyptAtlantis Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.” LastsMediaInternetDemocraticArtisticManifestationLast Time Author:Katya Chamma
“If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.” IfsKnowsYearsPersonsWould BeLastsAmericaNamesMediaReaderJohn Kennedy Author:Joseph Sobran
“I don't know when the last time was that Steven Spielberg or George Lucas made a movie with Universal, but I can tell you that Universal is leading the charge. They're looking at film differently. They're planning ahead in a way that I've never seen a studio do before. They're believing in a relationship between fan and film franchise, in a new way. They're more receptive to an audience, in part because of social media, in a way we've never been allowed.” KnowsWayBelieveMadeI CanLastsFilmSocialAudienceFansMediaUniversalStudiosSocial MediaPlanningNew WaysLast TimeReceptivePlanning Ahead Author:Vin Diesel
“My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."” StillsProblemLastsScienceNumbersSupportMediaExampleTheoryMonthsMathematicsUniversityUglyPartnersRidiculousNewspapersGapsPrimeReportersControversialCoverageTurkishLearning EnglishPrime NumbersMedia Coverage Author:Daniel Goldston
“Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.” LastsFormSocialMediaCommunicationSocial MediaHumankindEmailDisruptive Author:Ryan Holmes
“You might think you're connecting with your friends on Facebook but when was the last time you went out with your friends and asked them how they were doing? When was the last time you called them and prayed with them and really had a conversation? Go ahead and do those things with social media. I get it. I really do. But if you're lacking the other things, that's when it's out of balance and you're not really connected.” IfsThinkingMightLastsSocialMediaBalanceConversationSocial MediaConnectedLackingLast TimeConnecting Author:Jeremy Camp
“Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.” TodayLastsNightSocialRaceGoneHappenedMediaArmsTomorrowToolsHotClubsSocial MediaReplacedArms RacePingNight Club Author:Mark McKinnon
“The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.” PeopleNeedsYearsFactsLastsLeftPoorMillionsFantasyEconomicMediaProduceGoes OnEducationalPursuitThanksSocialistUnnecessaryInabilityIncentivesEducational System Author:David Horowitz
“Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'” YearsSaidLastsMediaNew YorkMovementYears AgoFollowingThanksRevolutionaryTelling The TruthCommunistDictatorshipPatheticCubaNew York TimesLast DayMarxistCastroLiberatorsSycophants Author:Cal Thomas
“As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure you know what you're talking about or you're A) not going to last very long or B) never going to get a good job. I think we've come a long way and probably still have a ways to go, but... I just don't take any of this super seriously. I'm not curing cancer and I'm not a doctor. It's just television. I don't know why some people get so worked up about it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLongStillsUseJobsLastsSportsTalkingMediaTelevisionSmartAdvantageDoctorsCancerGood JobLong WayBeing Smart Author:Michelle Beadle
“I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.” IfsThinkingYearsHas BeensPhilosophyLastsMediaFairsConservativeBest ThingsLiberalismShakesBad ThingsMainstreamIntimidationGreat AmericanMainstream Media Author:Janeane Garofalo
“What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.” NeedsTryingYearsLastsFoundOpportunityBehindsCompanyProgressHappenedMediaIndustrySurvivalMassGardenFlowInnovationFingersHidingLast YearRapidsMass Media Author:Arianna Huffington
“The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.” ThinkingWorldLastsSituationMediaToolsMedicineNotionTransformingParadigmTransforming The World Author:Marianne Williamson
“Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.” LastsFightingWinningMistakeMediaArgumentJustifiedLast WordsCan't Win Author:Roger Ailes
“I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindTodayAbleLastsReadingTermTalkingMediaInformationReaderProjectsVisualsThrownBarriersAbsorbingAccessibility Author:Nate Powell
“It is interesting just generationally that you see that people are much more comfortable, and that's part of life now for this next generation of actors and just people in the world. But for those of us who were living when it didn't exist, being in social media feels like the last thing you want to do .” PeopleWorldWantFeelsLastsNextActorsSocialInterestingGenerationsMediaComfortableSocial MediaNext GenerationParts Of Life Author:Natalie Portman
“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