Quotes about Media

“Report me and my cause aright.”

“Media, the plural of mediocrity.”

“There's no business like show business.”

“Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.”

“Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.”

“In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”

“Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.”

“Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.”

“Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

“Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.”

“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.”

“The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.”

“The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.”

“I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.”

“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.”

“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”

“The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.”

“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.”

“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”

“If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, ''Candle making industry threatened''.”

“Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.”

“The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.”

“The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.”

“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.”

“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”

“On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!”

“I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.”

“I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.”

“It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.”

“The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.”