“I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensSpeakMediaRevolutionDegreesContemporaryQualifiedAnticipate Author:Russell Brand
“Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in.” PeopleKnowsWayMindBelieveAchieveMediaProductsMarketingLifestyleAcquireAcquisitionIncessantly Author:Russell Brand
“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
“That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.” PeopleMatterBlackMediaFolksBlessBlack Lives MatterGod BlessNew MediaBlack Lives Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. He moved on to denigrating John McCain's heroism during the Vietnam War. He has gone after people with disabilities. He has said Muslims should be kept out of our country. He certainly has gone after individual women in the media, in the political arena.” PeopleThinkingMenShouldKindSaidWarCountryPoliticalOpportunityIndividualGoneMediaHe ManTrumpCallingEqualMovedCriminalsOur CountryImmigrantsDisabilityVietnamHeroismArenaMexicanVietnam WarMccainMoved OnEqual OpportunityPeople With Disabilities Author:Hillary Clinton
“I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.” PeopleSelfMillionsMediaPoliticianCorporationsCandidatesServingMisinformationSelf ServingTroll Author:Neil Young
“I work in comedy, journalism, media, and technology, many of which don't have a lot of black faces in visible positions. I walk through Brooklyn with a surfboard. It's fun to challenge and expand people's expectations.” PeopleFacesFunBlackChallengesWalksTechnologyComedyMediaPositionExpectationsJournalismVisibleBrooklynBlack Face Author:Baratunde Thurston
“This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.” PeopleWritingMindHumansLooksTwoBookStatesWholeFactsHelpingMightSpiritualThreeProcessConditionsMediaMissingEssenceFaultsEducatedRealizationReviewsArticlesHuman ConditionThought Process Author:Eckhart Tolle
“We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.” PeopleNeedsFeelsOrderOpportunityMediaMassMachinesMass Media Author:William S. Burroughs
“I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.” PeopleKnowsMediaProductsNewsInterviewsAdvise Author:Roger Ailes
“Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it's so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it.” PeopleThinkingLooksAsksMediaYogaAsk MeGymArticles Author:Beryl Bender Birch
“I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not Donald Trump. It is the people of this country, people who are working longer hours for lower wages, people who do not have health care or are underinsured.” PeopleKnowsCountryCareHoursMediaTrumpClintonFocusedCampaignsHealth CareKnow MeWages Author:Bernie Sanders
“For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLittlesLongHappensUsedBlackPiecesMediaStupidColorLike YouPeriodsNewsMassHip HopPopsRapTricksHipsHopsCoveredBlack PeopleCrapBad NewsLong Periods Of TimeRap Music Author:Chuck D
“This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.” PeopleWantBookShowsJesusChristMediaTvsJesus ChristGreenFilledAdmireComicContradictionComic BookTv ShowsArrowsVigilante Author:Paul Watson
“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
“Seriously, many people have told me they can't eat turkeys anymore after getting to know them. I think in the wider world, when the stories air on the media, they help banish the idea that birds, other than parrots, are somehow lesser.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldIdeasHelpingStoriesAirMediaBirdTurkeysParrots Author:Karen Dawn
“Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingHumansArtDecisionLevelsAwarenessMediaInformationTelevisionHappeningsReflectionEncouragementFascinatedGeneralizationLife Happens Author:Reggie Watts
“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
“The pollsters who have telephoners are going to consistently get a lower vote for Donald Trump because the media has attacked him so savagely and so dishonestly that a substantial number of people will not say they're for Trump.” PeopleNumbersMediaTrumpVoteConsistently Author:Newt Gingrich
“When you do a computerized poll, where people are comfortable, Donald Trump vote goes up very dramatically. And I think people don't realize the effort by the elite media, the totally dishonest effort to submerge him, has had an effect.” PeopleThinkingRealizingEffortEffectsMediaTrumpComfortableVoteElitesPolls Author:Newt Gingrich
“I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other.” PeopleThinkingSocialWorstMediaTrumpStandardsSocial MediaDialogueLegacyFancyHypocrisyYellingDouble Standard Author:David Cross
“I haven't had surgery. I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me. But I'm one hundred percent happy. It's difficult, not just for people in the media, but for everyone - young girls and boys - especially in high school.” PeopleDoneSchoolYoungGirlDifficultBoysMediaHavensPercentHundredHigh SchoolTeethInsecurityMassiveSurgeryBoy And Girl Author:Cher Lloyd
“I get that that the violent illegal immigrants will be removed from the country. But what I am not hearing and I am wondering, for people out there - and, look, it’s not just the liberal media, right? It’s also conservatives. It’s Rush Limbaugh. It’s Governor Sarah Palin. It’s other people who want Donald Trump to win who are saying, wow, it sounds like he is really backing away from this deportation force…” PeopleWantLooksCountryWinningForceSoundWonderMediaTrumpHearingViolentImmigrantsIllegalWowGovernorsPalinIllegal ImmigrantsDeportationLiberal MediaBacking Away Author:Jake Tapper
“There's people, like me and Jaden [Smith], who want to utilize social media to elevate the consciousness of those people who feel like all they want from social media is to be famous.Like, you can actually be a voice. You can actually say something that's inspiring and not just make people feel like you need to buy things and be a certain way.” PeopleWayWantNeedsFeelsCertainSocialVoiceConsciousnessMediaLike YouSocial MediaLike Me Author:Willow Smith
“People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests. I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSocialStuffInterestSupportMediaSocial MediaSoccerKnow MeInvolvementFollow MeTottenham Author:Adam Richman
“If I remembered when people said mean things about me, I would never speak to the media again.” PeopleIfsMeanSaidSpeakMediaRemembered Author:Hillary Clinton
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders
“Just to stay focused on my path and not the path that other people or media want to put me in. Just to stay focused on my vision, because I put out what I want people to know about me. Everything else is what the media puts out.” PeopleKnowsWantVisionPathMediaFocusedStay Focused Author:Tyga
“The media has a lot of power, and everything I do is what I want people to see, whether it's putting out a new single, dropping a new album, doing a new movie or new collab with a designer - this is what I want people to see.” PeopleWantMediaAlbumsDesignerDropping Author:Tyga
“I think you need a very strong mind to be on social media because people are mean and ignorant out there.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMindMeanStrongSocialMediaSocial MediaIgnorantVery StrongStrong Mind Author:Amber Rose
“I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.” PeopleThinkingPersonsIdeasMediaConfusionFedsAmbiguityRight Person Author:Kether Donohue
“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
“People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.” PeopleTodayLinesResponsibilityMediaBetween The LinesRead Between The Lines Author:Rob Lowe
“Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league.” PeopleRunningYoungFoundWinningCareersCasesSuccessfulPlayerFansCenturyMediaFootballInternetErrorsClubsListsMagazinesSoccerLeagueCurseMeaningless20th CenturyPollsFootballerDallasPro FootballPollingSuccessful CareerTime MagazineJuventus Author:Ian O'Doherty
“The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no exaggeration that The New York Times has more people in India than they have in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a borough of two million people. They're not a Bloomingdale's people, not trendy, sophisticated, the quiche and Volvo set. The New York Times does not serve those people.” PeopleDoeTwoMillionsMediaNew YorkIndiaAfghanistanSophisticatedHornsBrooklynNew York TimesExaggerationTrendyVolvoTime Will TellQuicheHorn Of Africa Author:Edwin Diamond
“People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.” PeopleWellsStillsDifferentMediaNewsChinaMoodChineseGood NewsPublishBad NewsUpbeat Author:Freeman Dyson
“This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.” PeopleDoeAsksMediaContact Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.” PeopleThinkingNeedsJobsTermInterestMediaConflictAskingJournalistInterviewsBetter JobsConflict Of Interest Author:Michael F. Jacobson
“So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of things are done that couldn't be done before. On the other hand a lot of the effect of social media is to set up extremely superficial contacts amongst people.” PeopleWayLooksDoneHandsUsedSocialEffectsMediaSocial MediaContactSuperficial Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence. It used to be hard copy and now it's a very limited amount of actual letters people write. So it's mostly email.” PeopleWritingI CanHardUseUsedSocialMy OwnEffectsMediaAmountLettersSocial MediaUsed To BeCopiesEmailCorrespondence Author:Noam Chomsky
“They have to earn our vote. Neither Hillary [Clinton] or Donald [Trump] have earned our votes, yet the media is kind of closing ranks around them to try to prevent before people find out that there is actually - you know, that we actually have other choices. We are not limited to two corporate candidates.” PeopleKnowsTryingKindTwoChoicesMediaTrumpVoteClintonCorporateCandidatesClosing Author:Jill Stein
“In reality, you cannot withstand for five years and more against all those countries, the West, and the Gulf states, the petrodollars, and all this propaganda, the strongest media corporations around the world, if you don't have the support of your own people. That's against the reality.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsCountryStatesRealitySupportFiveMediaWestAround The WorldCorporationsPropagandaFive YearsStrongest Author:Bashar al-Assad
“In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly.” PeopleMotivationSocialMediaSocial MediaPostsReviewsPeersJournalPeer Review Author:Susan Fiske
“They [media] don't care if they're hurting anybody's family or hurting their reputation. The most interesting thing about it is that it's people doing it to other people. It's somebody who has a sister or a brother or a daughter or a son or a family. They don't care.” PeopleIfsCareHurtInterestingMediaSonBrotherDaughterDon't CareReputationMost InterestingInteresting Things Author:Scott Eastwood
“At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.” PeopleNeedsTryingCharacterFeltOur LivesMediaApologizingEver After Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't believe, folks, that the media people you see on TV every day from NPR to CBS to ABC to NBC to wherever are ever gonna admit they're irrelevant, and they're not gonna start acting like it, and they're never gonna say, "Gee, you know what? We might have to alter the way we're -" It isn't gonna happen, even if it means the end of them.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayBelieveMeanEndsMightHappensActingMediaTvsDon't BelieveFolksIrrelevantNbcNpr Author:Rush Limbaugh
“On social media and [in person] I hear stories of how a song like "Home" helps. Whether it's a guy overseas coping with missing his family or something deeper and terribly dramatic. Somebody once told me that ["Home"] is the song they listen to when they go to the cemetery to visit their child that passed away. It gives them hope. At the end of the day, that's all what I want to offer people.” PeopleWantGivingChildrenPersonsEndsHelpingStoriesHomeGuySongSocialMediaMissingOffersDeeperSocial MediaDramaticThe End Of The DayCopingCemeteryPassed Away Author:Michael Buble
“I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment on everything.” PeopleThinkingWholeSocialFeltMediaSocial MediaCommentAppropriation Author:Guido Palau
“I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindMeanSocialSpaceMediaAngryStartingSocial MediaAll KindsToxicAttackingIncidents Author:Charlie Brooker
“I think we've created a system here where only the lifelong politicians, who are used to this kind of life in the spotlight and don't care, or people who have egos along the lines of Donald Trump - who just don't care what people say about them - they're the only people who are ever going to run because nobody wants their life dissected as meanly and as randomly as our media has come to do with anybody who runs for office.” PeopleThinkingWantKindCareRunningUsedLinesMediaTrumpPoliticianEgoOfficeDon't CareLifelongSpotlight Author:Mitch Albom