“Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'” PresidentRecordsLandMediaHighestProgramCourtPressesPhonesPerformingIllegalCollectingNsa Author:Rand Paul
“Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.” PeopleCountryWealthMillionsMediaTvsDependsInternetDiscoveryProgramRadioNewspapersPassingPassingsAdvertisingAlternativesCorporateDependentStationsConventionalCablesRadio StationsCable Tv Author:Howard Zinn
“Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.” EffortMediaSeriousProgramReformRevolutionaryCapitalist Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life, his music. My mother lives in Melbourne and is an avid photographer. She's also started writing for a magazine out there and she submits poems, very funny ones, and articles. In some way or other, my family is always doing something with the media.” WayWritingBeautifulMotherPassionFatherVoiceMediaProgramMy FamilyPhotographerRadioMagazinesArticlesSubmitClassical MusicAvidMelbourne Author:Olivia Newton-John
“What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.” FirstsKindBookBigsStuffClearHappenedMediaTelevisionBirthMassProgramInnovationPressesWavePornographyPrintingThrillersMass MediaPrinting PressNewtsWasteland Author:Esther Dyson
“I founded the King Hussein Foundation after my husband's death in 1999, to build on his humanitarian vision and legacy in the country and abroad, through programs promoting education and leadership, economic empowerment, tolerance, cross-cultural dialogue, and media that enhances mutual understanding and respect among different cultures across conflict lines.” DifferentCountryCultureUnderstandingLinesVisionEconomicMediaKingsHusbandConflictEmpowermentProgramCrossesFoundationHumanitarianToleranceDialogueLegacyMutualMy HusbandHusseinPromotingDifferent CulturesMutual UnderstandingEconomic Empowerment Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there is a project at the Zinn Educational Project: A People's History of Muslims in the United States - What School Textbooks and the Media Miss. And this program is teaching your high school student, juror junior high or middle school student.” PeopleStatesSchoolUnitedUnited StatesTeachingMiddleMediaMissingStudentsProjectsHigh SchoolProgramEducationalBunchInsaneRadicalRanJuniorsLunaticTextbooksMiddle SchoolLeftistsJunior HighHigh School StudentsJurors Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being fairly addressed in the mainstream media. In more intellectual and geopolitical terms, the perceptions of the region are distorted by a combination of Orientalism and the priorities of the state of Israel, including the refusal to discuss the relevance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the context of addressing Iran on its nuclear program.” ThinkingStatesTermMiddleMediaInformationAmountPerceptionWeaponsIntellectualProgramIncludingIsraelEastNuclearPrioritiesCombinationRegionsIranMainstreamMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsRelevanceRefusalArsenalFiltersMainstream MediaGeopoliticalOrientalism Author:Richard A. Falk
“If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.” IfsCountryYoungLanguageGenerationsMediaCreationProgramOur CountryMarginalizedNew MediaGeneration GapYoung Generation Author:Jacques Chirac
“Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.” ArtWould BeHouseCommunityQualityCompanyComedyMediaDiversityIntellectualProgramIntelligentStriveDepthRangeArticlesProvidingOpen MindOpen MindedBreadthGroundbreakingPopular Movie Author:Lachlan Murdoch