“Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?” PeopleMediaPositionCriticismSuperiorsCorporate Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.” WellsMightInterestAttitudeClassShareMediaPositionPerceptionGainsExpectedAspirationConcentrationElitesOwnershipPrivilegedAssociatesReflectingCommentators Book:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
“The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.” PeopleImportantDifferentEnoughWholeTodaySidesChallengesModernMediaInformationPositionCommunicationTendenciesLatterInvitedInfluentialViewpointsModern Communication Author:Pope Francis
“We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.” WayBookCountryFacesMediaExamplePositionMassPressesMagazinesFrightenedControlledCommunistOther CountriesPublishFreedom Of The PressMass MediaKkk Author:Pete Seeger
“If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also a big potential payoff. I think it does pay off because you get a lot of traffic, a lot of free public relations(in media stories). It helps position themselves for the next round of financing.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoeHelpingStoriesBigsNextPayMillionsMediaPositionRelationKillingRoundsAdsTrafficViewersBad PeoplePublic RelationsFinancingPayoffTurned Off Author:Charlene Li
“Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.” KnowsRecordsMediaPositionLuckyAuthorityCrossesPhonesJournalismWitnessOfficialsReportersPhone CallsScrutinizeSubpoenas Author:Irving Kristol
“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
“We need to put people in positions of authority in government, business, law, medicine, media, sports and entertainment who are filled with the laws of God so that we can bring those laws into effect.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentLawSportsEffectsMediaPositionAuthorityFilledMedicineEntertainment Author:Myles Munroe
“I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.” WorldWantWritingProblemNationsSidesUnitedPiecesTeamMediaPositionEmotionalTvsGoes OnDemandResponseStartingRadioPartnersEducatedAround The WorldOur SocietyCompassionateUnited NationsRapidsEmotional Things Author:Karen Armstrong
“And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole truth and calling us to complain when we don't. Break this know-nothing pact now and you will have taken as mighty a step as you can as an individual to help see to it that we as a nation move together toward a lively, hopeful, confident, and all-embracing future.” KnowsShouldWholeHelpingTogetherMovingIndividualNationsStepsBreakTakenMediaPositionCallingComplainingHopefulLivelyPactWhole Truth Author:Geneva Overholser
“The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.” IfsCharacterVoicePartyMediaPositionScotlandScottish Author:Sean Connery
“A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.” Has BeensArtistCoursesCan DoAttentionMillionsRecordsWorstMediaFrontsCrimePositionPagesGainsSellsMarketingCampaignsSidewalkMarketing Campaigns Author:Chuck D
“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
“The media does not do news. The media is the Democrat Party hacks assigned to journalism positions. Some hacks are consultants. Some are candidates. Some serve in elective office. Some are professors. Some are teaching assistants. Some run think tanks. Others are in the media.” ThinkingDoeRunningPartyTeachingMediaPositionOfficeNewsDemocratJournalismCandidatesProfessorsTanksAssistantsHacksConsultants Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.” StatesLeftCitiesMediaPositionFitBlueSpectrum Author:Andrew Breitbart