“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.” IfsNeedsRealTurnsCultureTermMediaHorrorMassSittingMysteriousVampireEveningArtisticWhat IfWitchFrighteningDisguiseBenchesWerewolfGrandpaSpoken WordMass MediaGrandkidsLiving Right Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“My career is media. One can turn on the TV or look at a magazine and see me.” LooksTurnsCareersMediaTvsMagazinesTurn-on Author:Leryn Franco
“media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.” ArtArtistTurnsGrowsChanceMediaMovementDegreesDestructiveAshesExhaustedPublicityObscurityShort TimeSaturation Author:Joyce Johnson
“These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.” TurnsMediaThese DaysSlipsCatastrophe Author:Valerie Trierweiler
“The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.” WarAmericaTurnsAttentionMediaMonthsNewsPaidPressesUglyCommunistCoverageDipCentral AmericaEl SalvadorUgly Truth Author:Fred Barnes
“The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.” TurnsCultureMediaTelevisionCamerasNativeAfghanistanDragCrewRagsMeccaSurrogatesAnchorman Author:Lance Morrow
“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
“Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.” IfsTurnsFateMediaFameLibraryMore TimeFickle Author:Mary Beard
“Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.” TurnsMediaMissingVoteSenateMainstreamMarcosMainstream Media Author:Kevin Drum
“I have this reputation of not wanting to talk to the media, which isn't true. What I don't like-what a lot of us don't understand-is how we can say one thing and it turns up in print as something else.” TurnsOne ThingMediaReputationPrint Author:Vijay Singh
“I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.” TurnsGamesMediaHip HopHipsZoneHopsTalk To MeHeadphones Author:Kris Humphries
“I've been very reluctant on the Twitter front. But I do Instagram now, so I'm slowly coming around. I'm quite a private person, so much of what I do for my job means that I have to be quite public so I'm just nervous about everything being public. I might turn around. Three years ago, I was against all social media but I actually really enjoy Instagram now. Who knows? I never say never!” KnowsYearsMeanPersonsMightJobsTurnsThreeSocialEnjoyMediaFrontsYears AgoSocial MediaNervousThree YearsInstagramReluctantNever Say Never Author:Jeremy Irvine
“The folks like myself that do this for a living, we were expecting a regular campaign had built the databases, done all the new social media, learned our lessons from [Barack] Obama whipping us twice on how to do voter contact, and then Donald Trump gets in it and turns it into a national election.” DoneTurnsSocialMediaTrumpLessonsBuiltElectionFolksSocial MediaCampaignsContactBarackVotersExpectingDatabasesWhipping Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed.” KindSelfTurnsFeltCan DoDealsCenturyMediaRegulationOwnershipBlairSelf Regulation Author:Alastair Campbell
“If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.” IfsWarTurnsEmotionAudienceMediaMassManipulationMass MediaKosovo Author:Paul Virilio