“Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.” KnowsKnow HowInfluenceMediaMonstersDestructiveHistorian Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.” LostMoralMediaMonstersTerrorist Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“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
“What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone in New Orleans was a monster, in the immediate aftermath more than 200,000 people invite displaced strangers into their homes through hurricanehousing.org and an uncounted horde go to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to give, to love, to be in solidarity, and to rebuild.” PeopleGivingKindHardHomeBeautifulMediaStrangerMonstersOfficialsInvitesSolidarityCoastNew OrleansAftermathKatrinaHorde Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the same words that the prosecution had used in the penalty phase: that he [Todd Willingham] was a monster. And that got me to get on to the computer and connect with some of the media and say: "I have his letters. He wasn't a monster. He was a caring individual." Let them see another side.” UsedIndividualSidesSawsMediaQuietComputerLettersCaringMonstersRepeatsGovernorsPhasesPenaltiesProsecution Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“In horror films, they sometimes don't show the monster because our imaginations and our own pain is so much greater. Social media is like that. I think it's so great. It doesn't have to show a monster - when you see someone leaving a mean comment, or living a so-called perfect life, you just put all of your pain into that.” ThinkingMeanSometimesShowsPainFilmSocialImaginationPerfectGreaterMediaHorrorLeavingSocial MediaMonstersCommentHorror FilmPerfect Life Author:Alice Eve