“I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.” PeopleThinkingDoeSometimesDoneBitsSidesForgetMediaManagersOverlooked Author:Gordon Strachan
“The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.” PeopleSaidWarSidesMillionsMediaEventsCriticsIncludingBoatCommunistVietnamRulersMistakenVietnam WarWithdrawalPlightCambodia Author:Richard M. Nixon
“The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.” WayTodayChristianSidesMediaNewsBigotryCoveredNews MediaAnti Christian Author:Newt Gingrich
“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
“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.” PeopleIfsWantWritingTryingI CanHardRunningSchoolSongSocialProcessSidesMy OwnActingCareersPathRecordsMediaStyleInformationProduceHard WorkInvolvedWake UpSocial MediaHonestlyVocalMusic BusinessLearners Author:Asher Monroe
“The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.” SocialDifficultSidesDarkTakenMediaSocial MediaProportionSecondsDark SideOf Context Author:Nicola Formichetti
“The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.” ThinkingMenMayTwoRealEnoughFactsSidesIssuesMediaTenConflictFormulasPremisesManufacturingTwo SidesPros And ConsNewsworthy Author:Gloria Steinem
“We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.” FeelingsTogetherSexSidesEmotionMediaEmotionalSeparation Author:Natalie Portman
“On the professional side, I've helped move cinema from a chemical-based medium to a digital-based medium. That'll be one of the landmarks. And I've left these stories, these little tales that have been imprinted on the media, which will or will not be of interest to people in the future. I've done the best I can.” PeopleLittlesHas BeensI CanDoneStoriesMovingLeftSidesInterestMediaTalesMediumsCinemaDigitalChemicalsLandmarks Author:George Lucas
“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
“I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.” CountryFilmEnergySidesCreativeMediaStandardsVideoVisualsSomedayPushingConventionalCoinsShort FilmsCreative Energy Author:Sturgill Simpson
“Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.” CountrySometimesEyeCoursesSidesMediaWesternEastBelongingTurkeysNot BelongingWestern Media Author:Orhan Pamuk
“I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.” PeopleKindHateSocialSidesMediaSocial MediaGutsGood And BadOblivious Author:Hilarie Burton
“I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the same words that the prosecution had used in the penalty phase: that he [Todd Willingham] was a monster. And that got me to get on to the computer and connect with some of the media and say: "I have his letters. He wasn't a monster. He was a caring individual." Let them see another side.” UsedIndividualSidesSawsMediaQuietComputerLettersCaringMonstersRepeatsGovernorsPhasesPenaltiesProsecution Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Drink lots of water, and nap. I've made some really big messes along the way, whether on the academic side or on the media side. It hasn't been a straight path. But a lot of those mess-ups have led to opportunities, so I guess I'd say be fearless, and keep bottled water with you, so you don't dehydrate.” WayMadeBigsOpportunitySidesWaterPathMediaDrinkMessFearlessAcademicNapsStraight PathBottled Water Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“The other girls [in team] have experience. They've been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect and what to do and what not to do. Me and Aly [Raisman] just gave them advice on the media side. We said, it's gonna be crazy. It's the Olympics. But it's gonna be fun!” WorldSaidGirlFunSidesClassTeamCrazyAdviceStageMediaInternationalOlympicsCompetingBeing CrazyOther GirlWorld Class Author:Gabby Douglas
“Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.” CountryCoursesSidesMediaOceanGermanyAtlantic Ocean Author:Vladimir Putin
“I went to work at political consulting firms, graphic design and communications firms and ultimately, magazines. Today, my career is in the media business. And more specifically, I'm in the "words" side of the business as opposed to video or music.” TodayPoliticalSidesCareersMediaDesignCommunicationVideoMagazinesFirmGraphicGraphic DesignConsulting Author:Lewis Schiff
“I just had somebody tell me, "You know, Rush, why the Republicans are so mad at you is because you're not carrying their water anymore. You know, they jealous. They look over at the Drive-By Media and they see the Drive-By Media totally fronting and carrying the water for the Democrats, and they think you used to be on their side. But now you don't carry their water anymore, and that's why they're throwing down on you," and I guess that makes sense. I hadn't considered that as a possibility.” ThinkingKnowsLooksUsedSidesWaterMediaPossibilityRepublicanMadDemocratUsed To BeMake SenseJealousThrowing Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensJobsAmericaBitsSidesPresidentTermResultsTalkingLeaderMediaTrumpVictoryPoliticianLaughterMy FriendsStealingMinistersOppositionAustraliaImmigrantsPrimeElitesPrime MinisterAmazing ThingsReally Amazing Author:Richard Glover
“My answer is that [Donald] Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he's had every establishment off side; Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence [agencies], arms companies... big foreign money ... are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.” IfsWellsBigsWinningSidesAnswersUnitedBehindsCompanyMediaArmsTrumpClintonJournalistAgencyExceptionOwnersEstablishmentIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note at the most obvious level the way in which forms of resistance or violence get cast as "conflicts" that assume two sides that are fighting only against one another.” ThinkingWayTwoHappensFormFightingSidesLevelsViolenceMediaEventsConflictAssumingNotesCastsDetermineObviousBoundariesResistanceSelectTwo Sides Author:Judith Butler
“If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know there's guys that say immigrants come here, and they create so much crime and they take jobs. There's multiple sides to every story.” IfsKnowsStoriesJobsGuySocialSidesMediaCrimeIgnoranceHotSocial MediaDebateImmigrationImmigrantsMultipleButtons Author:George Lopez
“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