“The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.” PeopleBelieveFactsShowsJobsMediaTelevisionPercentAverageProfitCustomersNeighborhoodFewerTwelveGood JobEightyMarginsSurveysProfit Margin Author:L. Neil Smith
“While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.” KnowsLongNationsNaturalMediaCarMovementPercentIncludingNuclearAlternativesDependentGasInternalsZeroRealisticEnginesSavagesGod KnowsAutomobileTransportationHybridGasolineHydrogenNatural GasCombustionPanaceaBovinePropane Author:Brock Yates
“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?” FactsHomeAgeCommunityFiveMediaAcceptancePercentOld AgeExpertsSixtyEmphasisNinetyNursingNursing Home Book:Fountain of Age Source: Fountain of Age
“Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.” IfsArtCountryChristianCultureInfluenceMediaFieldsPercentPopulationEntertainmentBelieverAssumptionPublishingAcademiaForging Author:Timothy Keller
“Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.” MeanDoneFactsUsedCoursesNumbersMediaBirthPercentMethodMythPrimariesAbortionFedsAnnualsBirth Control Author:Bernard Nathanson
“Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.” YearsSocialAttentionWatchesTechnologyStudyGenerationsMediaTelevisionPercentSocial MediaDietsDomainDeficitNew TechnologySurfGeneration Y Author:Kevin Kelly
“Google AdWords help with targeting people. Social media makes it easy to find people. A lot of people write blogs as a hobby. Others do it to make money. Instead of advertising on a blog, do a revenue share where you give them a 10-percent share for the business you receive.” PeopleGivingWritingHelpingSocialEasyShareMediaPercentSocial MediaAdvertisingMaking MoneyGoogleHobbiesRevenueBlogs Author:Cameron Johnson
“I am a hundred-percent Indian traditionalist! I am not "playing anything" - that is for the media to be able to say what I am doing.” AbleMediaPercentHundredIndian Author:Trilok Gurtu
“I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.” PeopleRealFeelingsRealityJobsHouseWhiteTalkingWonderClassStreetsMiddleMediaWallPercentQuittingMiddle ClassWhite HouseUnemploymentGood JobNotableTalking Heads Author:Jim Clifton
“This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.” MeanImportantCountryWholeAmericaWealthClassIssuesEconomicMiddleMediaPercentBottomDisappearIncomeCorporateMiddle ClassEconomic SystemsImportant IssuesRigged Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“It's rather remarkable Donald Trump has had over four billion dollars of free primetime media, Hillary's [Clinton] had over two billion worth, my campaign has had essentially zip, yet we are still pushing up around five percent in the polls, which is unprecedented for a non-corporate party without the big money to get the word out.” StillsTwoBigsPartyFiveFourMediaTrumpPercentDollarsClintonBillionsCampaignsCorporateRemarkablePushingPollsUnprecedentedZips Author:Jill Stein
“One out of five voters voted on this, and 70 percent of the issues that people voted on issues and they thought the media was inventing the controversy. It is no like they didn't hold him accountable - the Supreme Court is number one.” PeopleNumbersIssuesFiveMediaPercentCourtSupremeVotersSupreme CourtControversyInventing Author:Mary Matalin
“Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives, everyone gets along just fine. When the president [Barack Obama] constantly sides with the worst thugs out there and with the Black Lives Matter terrorists, and the media lies constantly, we the people better get to the truth ASAP.” PeopleMatterLawLyingSidesBlackPresidentCommunityWonderfulWorstMediaFinePercentRelationPoliceTerroristBarackPlusCopNinetyBlack Lives MatterPresident Barack ObamaThugBlack Lives Author:Ted Nugent