Where eyeballs go, so goes media.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people’s limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war...

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from ‘Why publish this?’ to ‘Why not?

Halafa hailipi.

[D]ie Leute [lesen] nichts, was sie nicht interessiert, und wenn sie etwas interessier[t], [sind] sie auch reif dafür.

I don’t think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

Isn’t the media supposed to keep government responsible?

Theo appreciates the support, but of course he will not be attending. We were all surprised to see the media coverage this good-natured exchange generated.

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf,...

Jeder ist immer erreichbar. Die ganze Welt beschleunigt sich, alles ist dringend, und wo alles dringend ist, ist nichts mehr dringend, und damit schlittern wir in eine Bedeutungslosigkeit hinein.

I don’t want to be involved in endless media gossip.

It was hard for me to see coach Barnett trashed like that in the national media. Anyone who’s actually gone and talked to him or had the chance to sit in one of our meetings...

Being on the West Coast, that time difference messes up my media game.

Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse....

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Von der Pressefreiheit hängt praktisch jede andere Freiheit ab.

Das Web 2.0 bedeutet vor allem, dass die soziale Reichweite des Einzelnen größer ist als die Reichweite der eigenen Stimme.

Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in the columns given to economic subjects, or in the pages devoted to reports...

Our efforts will reach more people and be more effective by using modern technologies and media channels.

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)”How do you find America?””Turn left at Greenland.

If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.

we think we know how the media affects us,” but in truth, it controls us more than we know.

They sit beside each other on one of the sofas, Warwick leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, Joanne resting back with her arms behind her head. Never known as advocates of establishmentarianism, they...

…when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

When you look at the ‘New York Times,’ you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we’ve invaded.

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below...

This isn’t about Tommy. This isn’t about getting him more publicity, about impressing people, about getting the media here (two Chicago TV stations covered the event). It’s about giving back.

There’s so many, ‘no, black people aren’t like that’ barriers in mainstream media.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

[Speaking Wednesday morning on CNN’s] American Morning, … I sure was surprised that I heard about it from the media, and not from Al.

{President] Kayibanda’s government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half...

The news isn’t there to tell you what happened. It’s there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

Looking back, I still can’t believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of ‘experts’ all contradicting one another, all trying...

Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.

False Memory” for Errors in Memory for Details, Journal: Ethics & Behavior 14(3) pages 201-233, 2004

News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people’s minds about what was possible or tolerable.

Just as there are legal guidelines concerning the police use of provocateurs, there must be limits to how far the media can go in setting up a misleading situation … I, for one, can simply...

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We’re under a huge obligation to be successful.

The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called “worthwhile goals”. Money, fame, power,...

When every single piece of media you consume is time-stamped, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time shifted?

So what if twenty of these are non-stories, I at least had five I believed in.

The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether, very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distraction of radio, but for the moment reading...

I’m kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

It’s hardly surprising that Russian foreign policy is misinterpreted abroad. This happens because the Russian and Western media cite the opinions of NGOs that are heavily bankrolled with foreign capital.

Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it’s a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that’s show business.

Obwohl diese afrikanischen Militärbanden oft nicht größer oder mächtiger sind als die organisierten kriminellen Banden in Asien oder Osteuropa, wird über ihre Aktivitäten in den Medien – sogar in den westlichen Medien – unter der...

Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is]...

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating “compulsive media” to get you to click things more.