“[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.” PeopleSchoolAmericaChurchSituationSuccessfulMediaCreatingMassLoyaltyReformOppositionVotingPatrioticMass Media Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.” BeautifulLinesSituationMediaSongwritingAdmirableUnderdog Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“The wrestling, even though I would only wrestle for 15 or 20 or 30 minutes at a time, and it would look like that was the only time I was in it, was really a 24-hour job. Keeping yourself alive, reinventing yourself, staying physically in shape, the traveling, all the other commitments with being a wrestler, it was a crossover situation where it became sports entertainment and you actually became a media star, so it was very demanding.” LooksJobsStarsSportsHoursSituationAliveMinutesMediaShapesCommitmentEntertainmentStayingWrestlingOnly TimeWrestlerReinventingReinventing YourselfCrossoverSports Entertainment Author:Laila Ali
“If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.” IfsMatterCoursesGivenSituationRightsMediaAccess Author:John Roberts
“The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.” TryingRealityFacesSituationViolenceMediaConcernConcernedHatredWestDoctrineIslamicDedicatedModeratesCursingInforming Author:Reza Aslan
“One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.” PeopleShouldFeelingsTodayCultureGivenSituationMediaMovementBirthIndependentBest ThingsUsaReportsProtestControlledSeattleCnnIndependent Media Author:Jello Biafra
“We've never had a situation where mass media has been so censored, at least in my lifetime. When I was younger, networks like NBC, CBS, were independently owned, and took their jobs as journalists seriously. There used to be documentaries like "The Selling of the Pentagon."” Has BeensJobsUsedSituationMediaMassLifetimeSellingUsed To BeJournalistDocumentariesPentagonMass MediaNbcCensored Author:Jello Biafra
“As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.” PeopleNeedsBlackCommunityPayAttentionSituationMediaLabelsPay AttentionBlack PeopleControversialOur CommunityUnderminingConnotation Author:Chuck D
“The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.” ThinkingWorldLastsSituationMediaToolsMedicineNotionTransformingParadigmTransforming The World Author:Marianne Williamson
“If you look at the rights situation - what media companies pay - then you see that the rights prices continue to rise for powerful sports. Now what does that tell you? It tells you that the demand amongst global and local sponsors for these kinds of sports is immense, even if there is controversy attached to them like FIFA - who would definitely be number one on that list, though F1 has also been somewhat controversial.” IfsLooksKindDoeSportsPowerfulNumbersPayCompanySituationRightsMediaDemandListsLocalsImmenseControversyControversialSponsorsFifa Author:Martin Sorrell
“It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.” KindLongIdeasCountrySometimesActorsHurtSituationRiskMediaMembersLong TimeVariousCrewDaredevil Author:Werner Herzog
“The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.” SpeakEffortSituationMediaAreasPressesHumanitarianShySpokesControlledSecretaryPeacekeeping Author:Kofi Annan