Laughingstock Media Quotes

I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in the morning thinking 'Great - I've got one million pounds in the bank'. I wake up happy because I am a successful part of a successful team. It's that success that brings all the media coverage, the first-night parties, the endorsements. I will never lose sight of that. It has come very quickly - sooner than even I expected. But it's great to know that if I continue in the same vein, then I can do exactly what I want with the rest of my life. I will be financially secure. ~ Kevin Pietersen

You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here! ~ John Kruk

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992. ~ Matthew Bomer

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged. ~ Astra Taylor

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other. ~ Marshall McLuhan

The Kony campaign us an example of how powerful 'slacktivisim' can be, and demonstrates that, with enough worldwide awareness and social pressure, movements like this one have the power to make politicians move. It also makes the ignorant less so. No-one knew who Kony was before the campaign. The atrocities were happening, and it wasn't even a blip on the social consciousness radar. It's encouraging that there's a way to spread information like this so quickly. ~ Charlie Caruso

After reading the news, I go on Twitter. I don't have an account but I find it interesting - all the different voices, the squabbles, the arrogance of certainty, the ignorance, the occasional, but wonderful, compassion, and watching the evolution of language head towards a new kind of hieroglyphics. ~ Matt Haig

It is one of the great bafflements of student fiction. I have read that college students can spend up to ten hours a day on social media. But for the people they write about - also mostly college students - the internet barely exists. ~ Sigrid Nunez

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration. ~ Criss Jami

The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media is guilty, just as it was in the Iraq war - then the easier it becomes for Americans to accept that we might just have to resort to military force to remove any Iranian threat. ~ Hooman Majd

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

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself
like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was. ~ Whitney Houston

One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something completely overwhelming proves you to have been wrong. In such a case, just drop the matter. ~ Wynant Davis Hubbard

Social networks are so full of wasted time - they could be compared to a waste disposal system. Flush, before you go and waste no time to go. ~ Will Advise

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular. ~ Lino Rulli

On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality. ~ Gloria Steinem

If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what issues are facing the country, then you get just part of the equation. I think it's important that we as citizens of this democracy take the responsibility to get as much information as possible before we go into the voting booth. ~ Donna Brazile

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. ~ Susan Faludi

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
~ A.J. Liebling

Focus On How To Be Social, Not On How To Do Social. ~ Jay Baer

How comes every time I write a book and one of my character's say something remotely offensive, do people stick that "Quote" next to my bloody name on social media? I didn't bloody say it, did I? ~ Jimmy Tudeski

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe, even in a society that lacks such means of control as death
squads, psychiatric prisons, or extermination camps. The very structure of the media is designed to induce conformity to established doctrine. In a three-minute stretch between commercials, or in seven hundred words, it is impossible to present unfamiliar thoughts or surprising conclusions with the argument and evidence required to afford them some credibility. Regurgitation of welcome pieties faces no such problem. ~ Noam Chomsky

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice. ~ F. Sionil Jose

To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media. ~ Annalee Newitz

He gave them advice in media relations and arbitration technique, he told them how to organize cells and committees, to elect leaders. They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them. He left to cheers. ~ Anonymous

REAL trumps PERFECT... because REAL creates TRUST. ~ Ted Rubin

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ~ Kristin Hersh

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes. ~ Nina Easton

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? ~ Julian Fellowes

Social media not only snatches your time, but it also teaches you attention deficiency. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

I expected to have some tags from reporters, but I'm clear there so far."
"I've had all inquiries from media rerouted to my office."
She narrowed her eyes "You can do that?"
"I can."
"Why don't you always do that? ~ J.D. Robb

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. ~ Maynard James Keenan

I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying. ~ Rod Serling

This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the best of life. ~ Gladys M. Hunt

In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event. ~ Chris Terrio

Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments. ~ John Hall

Allow yourself to fall, giving up the effort to learn how to fly, knowing someone will be there to catch you. ~ Volker G. Fremuth

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones. ~ Meg Wolitzer