“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
“The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.” ReasonOpinionMediaTelevisionDiversityWeaponsCorporateAgendasSponsors Author:Michael Franti
“Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.” PeopleIndividualSocialRealizingCompanyOpinionMediaCreatingToolsOrganizationInstitutionsMarketingSocial MediaConsumersEtcSpontaneousEngagingConnectingBlogsWikis Author:Charlene Li
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensImportantStatesReasonSeemsPoliticsUnitedLeaderOpinionMillionsUnited StatesMediaPolicyProveMouthsImportancePaidAffairAthleteIgnorantTreatedRationalDeclineMistakenEntertainersRational ThinkingProfessional AthleteForeign AffairsIdolizedDomestic Policy Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“[The media] are using a national treasure - that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.” LosesResponsibilityOpinionMediaDiversityTreasureLicenseLicensesNational Treasure Author:Amy Goodman
“We want stuff done right. As long as it's my team, I'll voice my opinion. Yep, it's my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. And if we're not right, I'm going to go out there and try to get it right... Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One.” IfsWantGivingTryingPersonsLongTwoDoneWholeMightWantedGuyAsksGivenStuffVoiceOpinionTeamMediaLike YouBasketballLifetimeWhole LifeShipsDieselLakers Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.” WantOpinionMediaDegreesGreat ThingsTunes Author:Michael Wilbon
“The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of editorial opinion that favors what you are doing or that the opposition doesn't have its voice, but you have to be able to effectively communicate your story through the media.” MeanImportantStoriesGovernmentAbleVoiceOpinionMediaBalanceCommunicateFavorsOppositionEditorials Author:Stephen Harper
“the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.” OpinionMediaPressesNewspapersJournalismOfficialsCensorshipFree SpeechPublic OpinionRestriction Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.” PeopleWritingNamesStrongOpinionWrittenMediaEditorialsStrong Opinions Author:Dave Barry
“Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved 20% of the population. While run by majority rule that is ok. That is very flawed notion of what democracy is. Democracy has to take into account several things - proportionate requirements of people, not just needs of the majority, but also needs of the minority. Majority, especially in societies where the media manipulates public opinion, can be totally wrong and evil. People have to act according to conscience and not by majority vote.” PeopleIfsNeedsStillsRunningEvilOpinionDemocracyRightsMediaConscienceVoteAccountsSlaveryMajorityNotionPopulationMinoritiesRequirementsPublic OpinionManipulateFlawedDemocracies HaveEvil PeopleMajority RuleMajority Vote Author:Howard Zinn
“When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.” WantBelieveStatesAmericaUnitedOpinionUnited StatesMediaPleaseMassGuidesCorporateCorporate America Author:Gore Vidal
“Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.” Has BeensLanguageGivenNumbersAttentionOpinionMediaIndiaInternationalIndianExcellentSheerJustifiedEnglish LanguageDiaspora Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck.” WantTryingTurnsBeliefOpinionMediaPositionTelevisionSourceMessagesImpressionMaking MoneyBucksPersonal OpinionsPositive Messages Author:Max Lucado
“The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.” WantGivingFactsOpinionKnowingMedia Author:Jennifer Lopez
“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.” PeopleYearsFirstsLittlesMadeSaidValuesAttentionOpinionRichFocusGroupsMediaPolicyOfficeSixPressesBritishScalesPay AttentionJournalistPhrasesLogicalConsideringConsistencyPollsWhimHacksBlairCondemningPoodlesOpinion PollsFocus Groups Author:Larry King
“What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector, staffing the welfare regulatory state, and apologizing for its policies, as well as propagandizing for them among the public. To put it bluntly, intellectuals, theorists, pundits, media elites, etc. get to live a life which they could not attain on the free market, but which they can gain at taxpayer expense.” WellsStatesBigsGovernmentJobsNumbersOpinionMediaPolicyGainsWelfareEtcExpensesMakersElitesApologizingBureaucracyFree MarketTaxpayersBig GovernmentTheoristsPunditsStaffing Author:Murray Rothbard
“Television is interesting, in that the pace is quicker and you can see your work more quickly than with movies. And then, with the added social media aspect, you can access that relationship to the fans directly and you have control of the content of what you say, your perspective, your opinions and your ideas.” IdeasSocialInterestingOpinionFansMediaTelevisionPerspectiveAspectSocial MediaAccessPace Author:Matthew Davis
“Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.” PeopleKindIdeasPerfectAttentionOpinionHappenedAdviceMediaCallingLovelyAll KindsNo IdeaOfferingProvoking Author:Cathy Freeman
“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
“I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.” PeopleI CanFightingSocialVoiceOpinionViolenceMediaSocial MediaThreatening Author:Margaret Cho
“I'm like anybody else that's in media. I've got my opinions. I share them. I'm not afraid of them.” OpinionShareMediaNot Afraid Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever magazine article. That is also the great power of the internet, where people share their opinions without the annoying screen of the media, and so much of the presence of my books has come from the Internet. It's a new era, a new form of war, and I embrace it.” PeopleKindPersonsBookWarHelpingFormOpinionShareMediaInternetEmbraceScreensCleverSuperiorsMagazinesErasArticlesAnnoyingGreat PowerAdvertisementsNew Era Author:Robert Greene
“We're bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion.” SocialOpinionMediaSocial MediaReportsBombarded Author:Emily Saliers
“What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryStatesEnoughPartyOpinionMediaMassHappeningsVoteThirdsMajorityDebateOur CountryReformCandidatesAgendasSensibleMechanismMass MediaThird PartiesRedirection Author:Ralph Nader
“Maybe one thing that has happened is that the claims of non-partisanship of the mainstream media have been a little bit exploded. Mostly I'd say what, if anything has caused the change, are just the obvious technological changes - proliferation of easier access to getting your opinions out and the proliferation of media.” IfsLittlesHas BeensBitsOpinionHappenedOne ThingMediaEasierLittle BitClaimsObviousAccessWhat IfMainstreamTechnologicalProliferationPartisanshipMainstream MediaTechnological Change Author:William Kristol
“My parents [father Lenny Kravitz and Bonet] did exactly what they wanted and didn't let anyone tell them not to. Now, as women, we need to continue to do that. Especially in the age of social media, when everyone has an opinion and it's so easy to be influenced.” NeedsAgeWantedFatherSocialEasyParentOpinionMediaSocial Media Author:Zoe Kravitz