Media Quotes

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

~ Frank Church

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

~ Bethany Hamilton

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

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

~ Julia Child

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

~ Bernhard Goetz

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

~ Van Morrison

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

~ Amy Jo Martin

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

~ Alexis Ohanian

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

~ Gloria Steinem

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

~ Dinesh D'souza

Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

~ Felicia Day

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

~ Bob Peterson

There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

~ Zendaya

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

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

~ Erik Qualman

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

~ Evgeny Morozov

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

~ Corazon Aquino

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

~ Todd Gitlin

The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.

~ Jack Ma

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

~ Mikhail Gorbachev

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

~ Jeremy Lin

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

~ Michael Nesmith

The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.

~ Chris Robinson

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

~ Chaim Potok

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

~ John Robinson

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

~ Mario Monti

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.

~ George Wallace

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

~ Gore Vidal

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

~ Millie Bobby Brown

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

~ Huey Newton

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

~ Jimmy Smits

Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.

~ Margot Robbie

I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.

~ Louis Theroux

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

~ Elaine Chao

I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers.

~ Holly Black

I think a big part of marriage is not going anywhere on those days you feel you really want to. It's like in the Barrier Islands. If you want to stay together, don't leave. I think just culturally - in the media, in movies, in books - we're trained to divorce when that first blush of sexual longing starts to fade. That's just where marriage starts.

~ Tony Earley

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

~ Jim Wallis

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

~ Alexander The Great