All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
William Bernbach
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it`s not entirely the media`s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
Peter McWilliams
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it`s not entirely the media`s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
Peter McWilliams
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
Peter McWilliams
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
Peter McWilliams
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That`s why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
Dennis Prager
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W.H. Auden
The media`s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that`s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcolm X
Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don`t represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.
Fidel Castro
On dealing with the resulting media attention of Empire of the Sun (1987) at age 13: "It was horrific. I was almost crying in interviews and running away during press conferences, pretending I was going to the bathroom and just disappearing."
Christian Bale
I`ve always had the same level of excitement about making music, but now it seems so much more important because all of the blame that was put on me for Columbine. The entire incident, the way the media reacted, the people who were involved, the way I was...
Marilyn Manson
I know people compare me to Kate [Moss] a lot after that media hype started. But it`s not that I`m trying to get her look, truly not. But I like what she`s wearing and we seem to share taste to a certain extent.
Sienna Miller
[on what he would like to ask former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean] The media tries to portray you as an angry candidate. Doesn`t that piss you off?
Stephen Colbert
It should go without saying I suppose that looked at through British Media Eyes circa 2004, my appearance anywhere on anything will be open to ridicule and instant dismissal. Please don`t get me wrong...I really don`t expect everyone to like what I do, bu...
Phil Collins
I respect the audience`s intelligence a lot, and that`s why I don`t try to go for the lowest common denominator. -- at the New York premiere of his media satire "Bamboozled".
Spike Lee
On violence in the media: "We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction (1994), it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it`s now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when peo...
Natalie Portman
[On being producer of the HBO documentary Children of God: Lost and Found (2007), which follows the rise of the Children of God cult] River Phoenix wasn`t an inspiration, or anything, he was just some boy who got overexposed by the media. I`m not making t...
Diane Farr
I`ve gone through everything with the paparazzi, where they are even hanging from the trees trying to get a picture. But I have a wonderful relationship with the press. I don`t feel mistreated. There is great communication between me and the media, and th...
Shakira
A lot of the time they (the media) form the idea in listeners` minds. Calling me a `pop diva` without listening to my work so when I come out with an urban song it`s like, `Pop diva goes black.` I mean, pur-lease. - Mariah from Hip Hop magazine
Mariah Carey
We aren`t the grandfathers of any movement. In the 1980s, the so-called indie film movement was a media creation. What I found irritating is that `independent` became an encomium. If it was independent, it was supposed to be good, and studio films were ba...
Ethan Coen
My career has suddenly started to be the one that I`d always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I`ve been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, ...
Rufus Sewell
I`m an easy target, especially nowadays. You`d be hard pressed to find many in the media or the music business who`ll own up to liking me and my music. Especially in the UK. Although I have met a lot of R&B singers in the States who are very kind about wh...
Phil Collins
[on the media] You know, I`ve made it a point not to read a thing. From what people have been telling me, everything has been really positive. Hey, it`s the kids who are going to buy our records and they`re not going to read things written in Entertainmen...
Billie Joe Armstrong
[referring to fellow pop-princess and former Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera] Christina and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.
Britney Spears
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
William Bernbach
