“Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.” LooksKidsTodayActorsMediaTvsMessagesSingersDrowning Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.” PeopleWayHas BeensTodayLife IsValuesCultureForceSleepEmotionExistenceWatchesDoubtMinutesMediaCarTvsProductsPersonalityMessagesComplexesCoreDesignerShopsCyclesFabricConsumerismSpontaneousHandfulAmerican CultureWovenOverconsumptionInsidiousCore ValuesSiegeBrandedAuthentic LifeUnder Siege Author:Kalle Lasn
“I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.” ThinkingWantFirstsKindBookMightKidsReadingGamesFunEnjoyMoralTeachTvsMessagesVideo Author:Louis Sachar
“You always know when one of the first ["Harry Potter" movies] are on TV, because you'll get a text message from one of your friends saying, "How high was your voice?" It's like watching a home movie, in some sense. But you just remember because the audience sees the scenes as they're written, but we remember shooting [the scenes] and all the stories that came around it. Like the Quidditch World Cup in ["Harry Potter and the] Goblet of Fire," it's like the Glastonbury Festival at Leavesden [Studios].” KnowsWorldFirstsStoriesHomeRememberVoiceAudienceFireWrittenTvsSceneMessagesStudiosCupsShootingHarry PotterFestivalsPottersWorld CupText MessageHarry Potter MovieQuidditchGlastonbury Author:James Phelps
“When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that's who we are. People often don't try to understand black men as a whole. We're creative, strong and influential.” PeopleMenTryingWholeGuyStrongBlackCreativeTroubleTvsMessagesSpreadWho We AreInfluentialThugBlack Guys Author:Thomas Jones
“Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.” ActorsSocialMillionsFiveConditionsTvsMessagesPaidDollarsNineLikesMillion Dollars Author:David Brinkley
“When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages. I would record TV commercials with SoundRecorder.exe on Windows 95 and reverse them to see if I was being subliminally influenced to watch Pokémon by Japanese spies.” IfsYearsSecretWatchesRecordsTvsMessagesWindowCodeObsessedConspiracyReverseSpyTv Commercial Author:Alex Hirsch
“TV is providing such amazing possibilities - you have such lively characters, fantastic stories and ambiguous messages, and viewers feel very satisfied.” FeelsCharacterStoriesPossibilityTvsMessagesSatisfiedFantasticProvidingViewersLivelyAmbiguous Author:Fedor Bondarchuk
“I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?” ProcessWatchesTvsProductsMessagesResponsibleArguingEndlessHeroinReverieThought Process Author:Terence McKenna
“Trump doesn't need to spend a dime to get his message out. Trump doesn't have to run an ad. Trump doesn't have to run a series. He doesn't have to pay people to show up. He doesn't have to buy TV advertising, because he gets more coverage than the combined advertising the rest of the Republicans could buy. And aside from the overwhelming, significant upset that is, the very fact of all that ticks them off. Donald Trump has direct access to his supporters. And you know who gives it to him? The media.” PeopleKnowsNeedsGivingFactsShowsRunningPayMediaTvsTrumpRepublicanMessagesDirectSeriesAccessSignificantAdvertisingUpsetOverwhelmingAdsSupporterCoverageDimesTick Author:Rush Limbaugh
“TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.” KnowsFeelsFirstsWantedMotherFatherTvsMomMessagesSitcomBeing A MomEnchanted Author:Roseanne Barr
“The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.” ChildrenMiddleMediaTvsMessagesGloryResearchSuicideTerrorismEastDecadesInnocentMiddle EastPalestinianInstituteTextbooksDiseased Author:John Podhoretz
“The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.” PeopleWayMomentsHappensMovingPoliticalCultureInterestingTvsMessagesMassPressesCriticalOne WayControlledQuestioningEngagingReally InterestingMoving AwayCritical MassPolitical Culture Author:Geoff Mulgan
“At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.” TryingYearsJobsGivenCareersTvsDirectorsMessagesNewsCamerasManagersFortyForty Years Old Author:Mika Brzezinski