protect our property at all costs from any sense of perceived threat. ” This is what the worship of death looks like.

A few hotheads went overboard on this, but not the media as a whole.

The moves in media stocks are never earnings based.

I was amazed by the way all of that played out in the media. To me, a musician going to rehab is like a normal person going to get his teeth cleaned. Don’t these people...

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used...

It’s being seen as a litmus test for the valuations of media companies.

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war – which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country – and there wasn’t enough critical reporting about it and that’s why it’s...

Dovunque, in tutto il mondo, centinaia o migliaia di milioni di individui, tutti eguali, ignari dell’esistenza di altri individui, tenuti separati da mura di odio e di bugie, eppure quasi gli stessi.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more than half of the herd makes a move to bolt, they all move.

I emphasise it now; I had little-to-nothing in common with other people. Their values I did not comprehend, their ideals were to me a living horror. Call it ostentatious but I even sought to provide...

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded — your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself.”[Speech at CIA Headquarters, November 28, 1961]

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to the present have failed to confront. What is needed is a...

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That’s not going to define me or hamper me.

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

Dein Wissen hat keine Bedeutung, wenn niemand anderes weiß, dass du weißt.

People were vocal; they let the county know and they let the media know that they were very unhappy that illegal aliens could march in the street, but law-abiding citizens who just wanted to get...

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.

It doesn’t matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant...

Like you guys (the media) have always been saying, you can’t be the champion unless you beat the champs. It felt good to unseat them, to knock them off their pedestal.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

…isn’t it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

If you followed the media you’d think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that’s not the case; so it’s important to engage with the other Africa.

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

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.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

If we worried about the things you guys (in the media) worry about, our heads would explode. We just play basketball.

It’s tough to be a or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There’s tension, there’s media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight, you may think something is simple, but it may conceal a...

Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person’s statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the...

What really drives the stock is merchandise sales and that is largely stimulated by theatrical releases. And all my media sources, including those at Toy Fair, were positive about the Fantastic Four movie.

The international media somehow portray the situation as if the Israeli side is making huge concessions, going out from Gaza and not listening to what’s happening in the West Bank, to what Israel has been...

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

All in all, the media was very fair to us. I was surprised and very happy about it.

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real?...

The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s. And they were all victims of a...

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn’t shoot anything down.

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever...

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.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

The carelessness with which we talk about each other and to the media is destroying us.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don’t offend the...

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.