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Media
«Now, they have invented a new war to fire our passion and capture imagination?The War on Christmas. It?s a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane.»
«Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .»
Author: Potter Stewart
(Judge)
| About:
Media,
Newspapers,
Television
| Keywords:
abusive, arrogant, eliminate, elimination, hypocritical, networks, outrageously, television networks, untruthful
«The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the public?s general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, it?s an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority.»
«People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.»
Author: Ted Koppel
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, investigative, mass media, media
«Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.»
Author: Carly Fiorina
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
David, merger, mergers, Packard, positioning, recent
«National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services»
Author: Corazon Aquino
| About:
Criticism,
Leadership,
Media
| Keywords:
allies, criticisms, do well, services, wilting, withering
«New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual o»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
codes, Greeks, new media, patterns, phonetic, set down, Supposing, the Greeks, visual
«People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
Media,
People,
Presidency
| Keywords:
proctoscope, The Microscope