“Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.” WaySocialWalksAcceptanceTelevisionInternetLimitsMessagesRedPhonesBullyingBehaviourSiteVulgarCarpetMobileNetworkingYellingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkRed CarpetSwearingForumsMobile PhonesSocial Networking SitesNetworking Sites Author:Louise Burfitt-Dons
“Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.” LongMomentsFightingSocialVoiceAttentionMediaCarTelevisionMessagesNewsRadioSocial MediaPocketsCyclesDesks Author:Joseph Prince
“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.” ThinkingPoliticsSpeakProcessTermTelevisionSpeechMessagesNewsAppearanceDebateNarrativeIntimateCandidatesVisualsAdsAccustomedTransforming Book:Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy Source: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy
“Girls get the message from very early on that what's most important is how they look, that their value, their worth depends on that. And boys get the message that this is what's important about girls. We get it from advertising. We get it from films. We get it from television shows, video games, everywhere we look. So no matter what else a woman does, no matter what else her achievements, their value still depends on how they look.” LooksDoeStillsImportantMatterShowsFilmValuesGirlGamesBoysTelevisionDependsAchievementMessagesNo Matter WhatVideoAdvertisingWhat's ImportantTelevision Shows Author:Jean Kilbourne
“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
“People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading them. Electronic images and sounds, however, thrust themselves into people's environments, and the messages are received with little effort. In a sense, people must go after print messages, but electronic messages reach out and touch people. People will expose themselves to information in electronic media that they would never bother to read about in a book.” PeopleLittlesBookReadingSoundEffortEnvironmentMediaInformationTelevisionMessagesBotherJustifyPrintReach OutThrustElectronic Media Author:Joshua Meyrowitz
“American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and films say about who women [are] has global ramifications. There is a burden and a responsibility when you are someone who is very aware of how far we've yet to travel in granting women equal rights and equal respect and you are creating cultural products. You have to be responsible and be aware of the message that you are sending out.” WorldMeanFilmResponsibilityRightsTelevisionProductsHugeEqualCreatingMessagesResponsibleBurdenAround The WorldEqual RightsBeing ResponsibleRamificationsAmerican TelevisionEqual Respect Author:Liz W. Garcia
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.” MenWayKindMeanArtWarFormPoliticalCoursesBoysEconomyHellTelevisionIndustrySpeechMessagesSakeNewspapersPrincipalGrandchildrenColumnsBattlefieldsPolitical SpeechesMerchandising Book:Bluebeard: A Novel Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“The fans have access to the show and the creators, even if it's not direct. I don't know any television creators that don't follow the message boards. The feedback is so immediate, to see what is working and what isn't, and what's working better than you anticipated.” IfsKnowsShowsFansTelevisionMessagesDirectCreatorAccessBoardsFeedbackBetter Than You Author:Jeff Pinkner
“Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.” WorldGivingKindLittlesHomeHandsBigsEyeAmericaFilmNiceTelevisionPoetMessagesShotsHorseCamerasRaisesFrankCowboyPitcherSnapsSwiss Author:Jack Kerouac
“Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.” WritingNovelIssuesTelevisionMessagesAppearanceNewspapersStatementsBotherUrgesArticlesPublishManifestos Author:Amos Oz
“I got a message from one of my friends in Puerto Rico, who said, 'Sonia, there's nobody working in Puerto Rico - they're all glued to the television'. And I got a similar message from a friend in Spain.” SaidTelevisionMessagesMy FriendsSpainPuerto RicoRico Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.” ThinkingShouldWritingAbleBeliefVoiceComedyTelevisionParticularMessagesComedianCaptureConventionalNaivePrevailingConventional Wisdom Author:Jim Gaffigan
“President Trump watches a lot of television. I mean, really a lot. His favourite channel is Fox. Now just imagine somebody wants put a message in front of the president. You can hire a lobbyist or you can buy a minute on Fox or you can even pay somebody at a think tank to articulate your message and then pay a booker at that think tank to get that person on Fox and put the thought directly in the president's ear.” ThinkingWantMeanPersonsPresidentPayWatchesImagineMinutesFrontsTelevisionTrumpMessagesEarsFavouriteFoxesTanksLobbyists Author:David Frum
“When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.” SaidJobsRememberFacesMotherParentVoiceDarkTeacherSeeingEffectsTelevisionHusbandMessagesSkinsHearingInterviewsGradesCreamImmediate FamilyDark Skin Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.” PeopleNeedsStoriesMediaCrimeTelevisionMessagesNewsDestructionVictimDrinkingBarsConsumersStaringMy TimeFrightenedPollutionPassiveAirportsNews Stories Author:John Twelve Hawks
“Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.” WorldNeedsWisdomTruthFunnyPeaceTelevisionSourceOffersMessagesBreathsTeethTeenagerGuidanceComparisonPaleToothpaste Author:Dave Barry