“In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.” MenTwoLastsThreeMediaHe ManUnderstoodDecades Author:Anson Mount
“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.” IfsTwoImportantSocialHoursCommonWorryMediaMajorsPoliceTrainSocial MediaCommon SenseStationsBusClosingRiotTrain Stations Author:Louise Mensch
“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.” WorldWantTwoSelfHelpingTermMediaBalanceCitizensStrikesTwo ThingsShort TermBotheredGood Citizen Author:Eli Pariser
“Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.” WayArtTwoLawGirlHouseCitiesMediaProudTrackExceptionThickPigsDianaCertificatesGuineaGuinea Pigs Author:Peter York
“In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.” FirstsMayTwoReasonUsePastMediaConcernOrganizationIndependencePressesJournalistOperationsDamageInherentCommitteesCredibilityCiaMisleadExaminingPast And PresentFree PressCovert Author:Frank Church
“Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family.” YearsLongTwoRunningPresidentTalkingBreakWeekMediaOur FamilyEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Jimmy Fallon
“We want stuff done right. As long as it's my team, I'll voice my opinion. Yep, it's my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. And if we're not right, I'm going to go out there and try to get it right... Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One.” IfsWantGivingTryingPersonsLongTwoDoneWholeMightWantedGuyAsksGivenStuffVoiceOpinionTeamMediaLike YouBasketballLifetimeWhole LifeShipsDieselLakers Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.” MenStillsTwoDoneBigsForceSpecialMediaReadyBasketballSpotsLeagueSomething SpecialMillenniumUpstairsDuncanShoguns Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.” KnowsWayWantTwoBookDifferentMediaDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsTwo Different ThingsBad Movies Author:Katherine Paterson
“I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoWould BeTodayNationsSawsMediaTelevisionCamerasCarnageGettysburgTwo NationsMcclellan Author:George Will
“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
“When I went to my first CMA Fest, I wanted to be an artist, but I was such a fan girl - I still am - and the two people I waited in line to meet were Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum. Taylor, I haven't gotten to sit and talk with her as much as I hope I get to one day, but even with her just supporting me on her social media has been incredible.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoWantedArtistGirlSocialLinesFansMediaHavensOne DayIncrediblesSocial MediaAntebellum Author:Kelsea Ballerini
“Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.” TwoLostDoubtMediaTypeWeightYeahScandalDiabetes Author:Tom Hanks
“The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.” WorldTwoCharacterInfluenceMediaInformationMomBearsDadCirclesFlightExpertsElectricSageEarnestMom And Dad Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).” TwoAudienceMediaInformationSourceElementsModelsBuiltStrategyConservativeProvokingNever ChangeFeverMistrustIndignationBusiness Models Author:David Frum
“I have always been aware that I can never represent all trans people. No one or two or three trans people can. This is why we need diverse media representations of trans folks to multiply trans narratives in the media and depict our beautiful diversities.” PeopleNeedsI CanTwoBeautifulThreeMediaDiversityFolksNarrativeDiverseRepresentationTrans Author:Laverne Cox
“I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.” PeopleThinkingKindTwoSpiritualMediaTiredHungerSpiritual Hunger Author:John Fugelsang
“As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.” TwoFilmCoursesSoundNaturalCareersMediaComplicatedConnectedJournalismDocumentariesProgressionSound And Music Author:Nancy Kates
“Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.” TwoPoliticalWhiteMediaTenPaperSellingJournalismBuyingPoundsCentsWhite PaperTwo Cents Author:Charles A. Dana
“There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures.” ArtTwoDifferentUsedCultureNationsGrowthCommonSpecialMediaMassAdultsTasksPressesRadioCinemaAgencyMutualDivisionFormalOutlookComprehensionMass MediaUnescoAdult EducationArt And CultureSpecial One Author:Julian Huxley
“I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.” TwoMediaPhotographyUniquePhotographerPhotographSurfaceRelative Author:John Sexton
“Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions - "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?” PeopleLooksHas BeensTwoBookCareNumbersTalkingIssuesMediaTrumpLet MeMathDebateComicFallenInsultVillainComic BookCagesDon't TrustMarcosBen Carson Author:Ted Cruz
“Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.” MenYearsWellsMadeTwoPlayUseBigsRealityHappensWantedRememberBornKnownFiveSeeingHappenedLandMediaEventsTvsMonthsMoonProjectsLifetimeProductionsVariousBeachThirtyTerritoryMake It HappenGoodwillThirty YearsLandingDutchMoon LandingReclamation Author:Aleksandra Mir
“We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize the story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.” IfsWantYearsKindTwoStoriesBodyCommunityWeekMediaHeroMassMurderPhotographBoringIntenseAffectedKillersCan NotCoverageCnnSirensSaturationAnti Hero Author:Park Dietz
“[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.” KnowsWayLongTwoSpiritualityDecisionWalksMoralFocusMediaPrayingJudgmentShotsThirdsStressMethodCalmWarmMagazinesEach DayBuyingEthicalCandleLensesAnother WayReductionFuzzyOmenLong WalksMoral JudgmentScented CandlesStress Reduction Author:Myrna Blyth
“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.” TwoSeemsPastMediaParticularPaintingPhotographyPerformancesLeavingDecadesBoundariesMediumsSculptureOver The Past Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History
“Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Actually, one piece of the media confusion has a basis because there really are two different strands in the occupy movement, both important, but different.” PeopleMeanTwoImportantDifferentPiecesMediaMovementDirectBasesConfusionTraditionalOrganizedJust OneParticipationDifferent PeoplesAnarchismAnarchistStrandsOne PieceOccupy Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.” TwoSocialMediaSonSocial MediaTeenageSurvivingGreat Times Author:Paul Bloom
“He [Donald Trump] said in the debate - he said, gosh, I'm being audited for two years. Then he said three years. Then he said maybe five years. Listen, if there's a problem in his taxes, the voters have a right to know, because come September, October, the general election, folks in the media are going to make a heyday about any problems in his taxes.” IfsKnowsYearsSaidTwoProblemThreeFiveMediaTrumpTaxesElectionFolksDebateFive YearsTwo YearsVotersThree YearsSeptemberOctoberGeneral ElectionsHeyday Author:Ted Cruz
“I think media think it's going to be good for ratings, and, two, because they know they have a lot of material to work with. If Donald Trump were to ever become the nominee, immediately, the hounds of hell would descend on him. They're going to tear him apart, everything he's ever done, from not releasing his taxes, to all of his failed business dealings.” IfsThinkingKnowsTwoDoneHellMediaTearsMaterialsTrumpTaxesBe GoodRatingDealingsHounds Author:Marco Rubio
“This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.” PeopleWritingMindHumansLooksTwoBookStatesWholeFactsHelpingMightSpiritualThreeProcessConditionsMediaMissingEssenceFaultsEducatedRealizationReviewsArticlesHuman ConditionThought Process Author:Eckhart Tolle
“There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out.” TwoGuyAsksFoundPiecesMediaFashionEventsPaperNewsDecidedThirdsHearingIranCoveredAmerican HistoryUnprecedentedOverlookedIran Contra Author:Roger Ailes
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders
“There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.” WayTwoVoiceDealsSilenceKnownMediaEternalConsequenceVowTwo Ways Author:Andrew Linzey
“The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no exaggeration that The New York Times has more people in India than they have in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a borough of two million people. They're not a Bloomingdale's people, not trendy, sophisticated, the quiche and Volvo set. The New York Times does not serve those people.” PeopleDoeTwoMillionsMediaNew YorkIndiaAfghanistanSophisticatedHornsBrooklynNew York TimesExaggerationTrendyVolvoTime Will TellQuicheHorn Of Africa Author:Edwin Diamond
“They have to earn our vote. Neither Hillary [Clinton] or Donald [Trump] have earned our votes, yet the media is kind of closing ranks around them to try to prevent before people find out that there is actually - you know, that we actually have other choices. We are not limited to two corporate candidates.” PeopleKnowsTryingKindTwoChoicesMediaTrumpVoteClintonCorporateCandidatesClosing Author:Jill Stein
“I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I also wanted to be an Author and Write Great Things. I've always tried to combine the analytical with the creative, to some extent or another, because I find it hard to do one without the other. I've worked as a tech journalist, social media consultant, and now am self-publishing fiction.” WritingChildrenTwoSelfHardWantedSocialFictionCreativeMediaAmbitionScientistSocial MediaGreat ThingsJournalistPublishingCompetingConsultants Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“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
“If we want to talk about the coarsening of the culture, I hope you devote a whole two hours for it and I would be happy to be a guest, but I'll also offer up some other guests. I don't appreciate many of the things that are said in our political discourse, I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media. You [Anderson Cooper] and I are attacked every single day, I'm sure.” IfsWantSaidTwoWholeWould BePoliticalCultureSocialHoursMediaOffersAppreciateSocial MediaGuestsDiscoursePolitical Discourse Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the two parties, which are corporations. We should have public presidential debates all over America run by public institutions.” ShouldTwoRunningAmericaPartyMediaShould HaveInstitutionsDebateCorporationsPresidentialPresidential Debate Author:Ralph Nader
“I think the Davis Cup has some untapped potential. It should be as prominent as the Grand Slams when it takes place. If you put it together with Fed Cup for an organized, nationalistic team competition taking place in a central location for two weeks, I think that would be beneficial from a fan interest stand point, from a media stand point and from a television stand point.” IfsThinkingShouldTwoWould BeTogetherInterestWeekTeamFansMediaTelevisionCompetitionCupsOrganizedFedsLocationBeneficialTwo WeeksSlamProminentNationalisticUntapped Potential Author:Jim Courier
“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