“When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between “the accuser” and “the accused,” there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.” PersonsBloodMediaVictimFleshViolentOppositionAccusedCoverageFlesh And BloodBinaryAccusersMedia CoverageViolent Acts Author:Jackson Katz
“To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.” HumansNightMediaIllusionBiggerVictimMereSwearDay And NightSlanderBadness Book:Healology Source: Healology
“Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.” StoriesMediaCrimeTypeVictimCrime Victims Author:Bernhard Goetz
“There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.” AbilityStruggleRightsTalentMediaDemandEqualVictimTreatmentEqual RightsParasitesPreferential Treatment Author:Thomas Sowell
“[T]here's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators who want to get re-elected will clearly want to avoid any spending decision that will create bad national publicity, and our news media, the manufacturers of bad national publicity, will send crying victims down the assembly line at the slightest thought of a social spending cut or freeze. Exhibit A is Sen. Jim Bunning.” WantReasonEyeSocialLinesDecisionCuttingMediaCryNewsVictimSpendingDeficitPublicityAssemblyExhibitsFreezePessimisticLegislatorsNews MediaAssembly LineSpending CutsReason To Stay Author:L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
“I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.” PeopleMediaVictimFeds Author:Sarah Paulson
“At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.” PeopleKnowsWritingMeanPersonsI CanSometimesShowsAgeYoungSocialKnow HowAirMediaVictimSocial MediaHandleDestructiveBullyingUglinessJunkTweetHighlightsMeanness Author:Gretchen Carlson
“I'm telling you, [ real people] are not mad at Al-Qaeda. They are not mad at ISIS. They are not mad at [Omar] Mateen. Mateen is a victim just like they are. They are a victim of this country. These angry, irrational Looney Tunes on social media - be it people who are commenting or originally posting - these people think they're victims of this country, too. They have been taught that!” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountrySocialMediaTaughtVictimAngryMadSocial MediaTunesAlsIrrationalIsisAl QaedaOmarLooney Tunes Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It occurs to me that there's been a relatively recent tendency in the media to see prostitutes as victims and johns as exploiters. I don't think most prostitutes see themselves as victims or see their clients as exploiters, but that way of seeing prostitutes and johns is pretty common now outside of sex-work circles, and it's more shameful to be the exploiter than the exploited.” ThinkingWaySexCommonSeeingMediaVictimCirclesTendenciesClientsShamefulSex Work Author:Chester Brown
“We think of Shots Fired as almost an autopsy of Ferguson that shows the events from every street in the house. And, in dealing with these two murders of a black victim and a white victim, we show the ways that communities and the media deal with victims differently based on race.” ThinkingWayTwoShowsHouseBlackCommunityWhiteDealsRaceStreetsMediaEventsShotsMurderVictimFergusonAutopsy Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“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
“The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMindDifferentPhilosophyFeelingsInspirationNaturalMemoriesKnow HowMediaUniqueRiversVictimPrisonHistoricalMusicalCellsInstantToneRepeatsEtcPoeticTrappedFountainConnotationFinessePrison CellsPersonal Time Author:Kenny Smith
“Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.” IfsArtImportantHomeViolenceMediaWindConceptsBasesVictimCleanRewardsCriminalsAcceptedPunishmentMannersGood ManClassroomPornographyGrammarFamily LifeBourgeoisFilthyGood ArtGood MannersSpellingOutdatedWhirlwindMany Homes Author:Norman Tebbit