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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets. By Nancy Gibbs Years Slivers Outlets Secret Media

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters. By Rush Limbaugh People Media Group Matters Universe

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents. By Nursultan Nazarbayev War Cold Media Served Religions

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative. By Fred Ritchin Media Multimedia Narrative Employment Kinds

Children are not born using media. Indeed, as much as children are socialized by media, they are socialized to use media in particular ways. Social psychologist Gavriel Salomon systematically explored how children's preconceptions about a medium - for example, that print is "hard" and television is "easy" - shape the amount of mental effort they will invest in processing the medium. By Victor C. Strasburger Children Media Born Socialized Medium

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind. By Steven Van Zandt Life Hopeless Day Barely Surviving

For most people, most of the time, the media are little more than a background hum. . . By Julianne Schultz People Time Hum Media Background

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication. By Rowan Williams Serving Media Society Communication Democracy

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it. By Madonna Ciccone People Media Affects Lot Constantly

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz. By Frederic Raphael Mass Massively Terms Good Program

The media do not just shape what the public is interested in, but also are shaped by it. By Daniel Kahneman Media Shape Public Interested Shaped

The mission of the media is to reflect the community to itself, to give the people a vision of who they are, what they're doing, what they want, what they need. I think motion pictures have been an incredible gift to humanity. I can't imagine living in a world without them. By Dolores Hart Mission Media Reflect Community Give

The media controls the mind. By Jim Morrison Mind Media Controls

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity By Joseph Goebbels Uniformity Media System Ostensible Diversity

The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals. By Mason Cooley Media Bold Violence Timid Morals

I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline. By Howard Rheingold Pathological Careful Judging Generalize Media

The media cause more problems than they do good. By Chris Kyle Good Media Problems

New media require that we - as leaders of our lives - choose where, when, and how to get things done, to manage the boundaries between different parts of life. By Stewart D. Friedman Lives Choose Life Media Require

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. By Ernie Kovacs Television Medium Called Rare

The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is.They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world. By Jean Baudrillard Reality Experience Represents Media World

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry. By David Frum Industry Media Trapped Technology Business

Television's compelling power is its immediacy .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues. By Hedrick Smith Television Politics Immediacy Compelling Power

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world. By Ethan Zuckerman World Study Media Shapes People

Technology and the pace of change in media is pushing us into an uncomfortable area The media have perhaps become more cavalier towards pushing confidential information. By Jim Michaels Technology Information Media Pushing Pace

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind By Jim Morrison Controls Media Mind

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit. By George Michael Admit Media Affected Consciousness People

What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides. By Arianna Huffington Work Happened Mass Media Industry

Trust your own reason and your own logic, not your own media! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Trust Logic Media Reason

People do not trust the slick and polished. Instead, the objectives of media training should be to learn how to directly address difficult questions, how to avoid falling into media traps, and most importantly, how to accomplish the two previous tasks with honesty and integrity. By Jeff Ansell People Polished Trust Slick Media

Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance. By Milton William Cooper Media Issues Importance Real Adult

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects. By Anita Sarkeesian Aspects Simultaneously Enjoy Media Critical

I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us. By Russell Brand Media Work Suppose Qualified Degree

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions. By C. Wright Mills Mannerisms Standards Commercial Jazz Soap

Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. By Robert Bresson Cinema Radio Television Inattention People

We want to bring light into media, we always keep that into mind... the message of love and goodness that still exists in the world... By Isabel Ruiz Lucero Media Mind Bring Light World

We are an industry that has historically been at the forefront of defining new media environments in ways that benefit consumers and move our entire business model forward. We must ensure that while we are moving quickly, we are also moving smartly. By Jim Stengel Forward Industry Historically Forefront Defining

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.' By Nick Denton Exist Read Good Media

I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance. By Patrick Whitesell Media People Good Making Content

As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more complex. By Matthew P. Mcallister Content Erodes Complex Wall Advertising

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment By Kalle Lasn Environment Commercial Media Mental Factories

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live. By Todd Gitlin Collectively Media Crave Live Thrall

if you gave the media any part of yourself, it squeezed it, twisted it, and wrung it dry. By J.d. Robb Twisted Dry Gave Media Part

If there is such a thing as media theory, there should also be format theory. Writers have too often collapsed discussions of format into their analyses of what is important about a given medium. Format denotes a whole range of decisions that affect the look, feel, experience, and workings of a medium. It By Jonathan Sterne Theory Format Medium Thing Media

Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well ... By Noam Chomsky Concentration Increasing Media Ownership High

The mass media are class media. By Michael Pare Media Mass Class

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. By Robert Bresson Cinema Radio Television Magazines Inattention

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. By Lena Dunham Medium Television People

The newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not. By Erich Fromm Television Newspapers Magazines Commodity Events

If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation. By Philip Auslander Choose Choice Formation Television Ranking

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink By Judy Polumbaum Ideals Media Work Years Jin

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on. By Umberto Eco Media Wicked Party Time Guilty

Mass communication, in a word, is neither good nor bad; it is simply a force and, like any other force, it can be used either well or ill. Used in one way, the press, the radio and the cinema are indispensable to the survival of democracy. Used in another way, they are among the most powerful weapons in the dictator's armory. By Aldous Huxley Force Mass Communication Word Bad

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it. By Ira Glass Traditional Broadcast Media Oldfashioned Vague

It's not sufficient in the internet age to communicate through the media; you have to be able to do it on the ground, door by door, coffee shop by coffee shop, shop floor by shop floor. You really have to do that as well. By Stephen Harper Shop Coffee Floor Door Media

As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it. By Jonathan Dimbleby Man Young Kind Engaged Thought

I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I'd like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream formulas. By Ryan Trecartin Internet Meet Interested Exploring Places

BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering. By Tim Wu Media Empowering Uplifting

New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up. By Esther Dyson Cyberspace Landscape Personal Vaster Wasteland

For new media reactionaries ... the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world. By David L. Ulin Reactionaries Media Internet Twitter Technology

Silence is banished from our screens; it has no place in communication. Media images (and media texts resemble media images in every way) never fall silent: images and messages must follow one upon the other without interruption. But silence is exactly that - a blip in the circuitry, that minor catastrophe, that slip which, on television for instance, becomeshighly meaningful - a break laden now with anxiety, now with jubilation, which confirms the fact that all this communication is basically nothing but a rigid script, an uninterrupted fiction designed to free us not only from the void of the television screen but equally from the void of our own mental screen, whose images we wait on with the same fascination. By Jean Baudrillard Images Media Silence Banished Place

A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media. By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Bad Media World Good Creates

Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. By Michael Crichton Mass Diversity Vanish Media Swamps

Entertainment and information work well together. By Marvin Sapp Entertainment Information Work

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium. By John Dyer Digital Medium Media Destroyed Magic

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. By Todd Gitlin Media Late Close Politics Observed

In a culture where image is more important than information, style more important than substance it is not enough to possess the truth. [Christian] case makers must also master the media. By J. Warner Wallace Important Christian Information Style Truth

the mogul makes the medium: the imprint of the personality inevitably informs it, often no less than the technology underlying it. Turner By Tim Wu Medium Mogul Makes Imprint Personality

All media work us over completely. By Marshall Mcluhan Completely Media Work

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies By Carl Bernstein Increasingly Unreal Delusionary Reality Disconnected

The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity. By Harold Innis Magazine Communication Overwhelming Pressure Mechanization

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. By Bernard Ingham Media Painting Earth Oil Close

The media industry grows more complex every day as technology fuels changes in how audiences consume entertainment. World Screen magazine is an essential resource, consistently providing keen insight into the players and latest developments in both established and emerging media markets around the globe. By Philippe Dauman Entertainment Media Industry Grows Complex

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was to fundamentally rewire people, communities, civil society, business, and the state - through thicker, stronger, more meaningful relationships. That's where the future of media lies. By Umair Haque Contests Channel Beauty Popularity Social

I would never deny the importance of the media, but I wouldn't go out of the way to splash my pictures all over town. I'd rather let my work do the talking. By Amisha Patel Media Town Deny Importance Splash

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious. By Ron Suskind Forceful Infectious Media Begun Recognize

Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot," he wrote. The content of the medium is just "the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind." P 4 By Nicholas Carr Media Counts Idiot Wrote Conventional

I was in a profession that received a lot of media. By Darrell Royal Media Profession Received Lot

The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can awaken people and change minds. It depends on who's piloting the plane. By Katie Couric Change Media Instrument Minds Maintain

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media. By Marshall Mcluhan Archetypes Media Disguised Degradations Older

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to. By Jim Stengel Consumers Media Today Responsive Traditional

When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life. By Jeremy Gilley Barnaby Responsibility Frank Things Younger

What makes a media company successful is how it copes with competitive markets in which people have a choice. Competition today is at a more intense level than it has ever before been because the barriers to providing information in the virtual world are so low and the choice of provider nearly infinite. By James Murdoch Choice Makes Media Company Successful

The press is the enemy. By Richard M. Nixon Enemy Press

Are the mass media on the side of the power in the manipulation of the masses, or are they on the side of the masses in the liquidation of meaning, in the violence perpetrated on meaning, and in fascination? Is it the media that induce fascination in the masses, or is it the masses who direct the media into the spectacle? By Jean Baudrillard Masses Side Meaning Media Fascination

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media. By Terence Mckenna Part Society Images Consume Produce

Alternative spaces, independent media, satellite, these all provide some tools by which we can work more independently and deal more directly with communities we hope to reach. Distribution is key, and finding alternative ways to do that with new media is critical. By Chuck D Satellite Spaces Independent Reach Alternative

Television is the medium of the 20th century. By Hugh Downs Century Television Medium

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them. By Marshall Mcluhan Peace Medium Addition Leave Ceases

What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways. By Oliver Stone Opinions Issues Scares Media Realize

We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it. By Cynthia Daignault Society Streams Talk Mediasaturated Surrounded

IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday By Lisa Gardner World Society Criminal Superpredators Detectives

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story. By Meg Greenfield Media Complaints Hear Days Crimes

The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates. By Al Gore Television Educates Age Printed Pamphlets

The medium is the message. By Marshall Mcluhan Message Medium

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences]. By Lucrecia Martel Information Music Decades Audiences Consumption

A medium of communication is not merely a passive conduit for the transmission of information but rather an active force in creating new social patterns and new perceptual realities. By Leonard Shlain Realities Medium Communication Passive Conduit

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters - there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void ... That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window. By Jean Baudrillard Silent Futility Media Inescapable Consequence

Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns. By Andrew Breitbart Feeding Dog Media Training Steak

The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. By Noam Chomsky Power Interlinked Framing Media Serve

Thank you, World Screen, for regularly providing me with excellent articles on international media topics. For me, World Screen is an important means of information-well-structured and reader-oriented. By Gerhard Zeiler World Screen Topics Regularly Providing