“Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.” MenNeedsLittlesReasonWholePoliticalIndividualInterestMediaParticularMassDifficultySatisfactionSellingAppealsAspirationSensibleEmbodimentMass Media Author:Herbert Marcuse
“My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.” PeopleWantDoneBigsTogetherUsedMediaParticularHugeDrawsIsolationDiscovering Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.” StoriesYoungCertainMediaParticularFindingsLowsMediumsBrows Author:Corey Stoll
“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.” TwoSeemsPastMediaParticularPaintingPhotographyPerformancesLeavingDecadesBoundariesMediumsSculptureOver The Past Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History
“Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.” ShouldHas BeensImportantEarthFoundViewsAcceptingMediaParticularProjectsDeserveShould HaveClimateCriticalSurfacePoint Of ViewJournalistTreatmentProfessorsMainstreamReportersSupporterShockingTemperatureShould Have BeenCommentatorsReferringMainstream MediaMisrepresentationDeserve Better Author:David Robert Whitehouse
“In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.” ThinkingYearsMayMadeMightArtistSongSoundVisionMillionsRecordsHeardMediaParticularReaderSixYears AgoBlowReviewersPersonal Vision Author:Van Morrison
“There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.” ThinkingShouldFilmCultureMediaFashionParticularPublishingFunding Author:Joe Mimran