Media Centers Quotes

Some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time. ~ Richard Armour

We're so used to being edited, so infected with the sleight of hand of the media, that we're more aware of what's been added than of what has been taken away. ~ Michael Marshall

In politics democracy itself is at stake in this world of high-speed always-on news. Political reporters pronounce sudden verdicts upon the politicians they often outshine in fame and as a result parliaments everywhere feel themselves reduced to side-attractions in the great non-stop media show. ~ Ian Hargreaves

Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. ~ Mark Twain

We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising. ~ Zac Goldsmith

As a proponent of big-picture analysis, media pioneer and Time founder Henry Luce asserted, there was more money to be made in slow news than fast news. ~ David Halberstam

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality. ~ Rod Stewart

I think traditional media is vitally important, I think there are a lot of benefits to working in traditional media, and I enjoy doing working with real paint when I get the chance. ~ Julie Dillon

This is the golden age of grotesque. ~ Marilyn Manson

Ever since Obama's election team and media thugs made me famous for asking a simple question in 2008, I've had more than my share of death threats by people who are by definition at least a little crazy. ~ Joe Wurzelbacher

Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about. ~ James Rozoff

Occupation of vast reaches of space means nothing. It is control of population centers and essential resources that determines victory or defeat. ~ Greg Bear

Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money. ~ Grant Bowler

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition. ~ Barbara Walters

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come. ~ Brad Paisley

MacArthur Foundation, as part of its initiative on Digital Media and Learning, we thank Constance M. Yowell, Director ~ Cathy N. Davidson

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie. ~ Ken Gire

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners. ~ Jessica Valenti

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world. ~ David Wilkerson

the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion. ~ John Shirley

People are reading. In fact, due to social media they are reading more than any time in history. Now we must find a way to get them to include books in all that reading. It starts with us writers doing a better job of writing. ~ Will Gibson

In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin ... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party. ~ Helder Camara

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race. ~ Jonathan King

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip. ~ Dave Barry

When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team. ~ Mary Barra

The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. ~ Jimmy Swaggart

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism. ~ David Brock

We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web. ~ Sandy Carter

I do the math. On one side: Anderson, the entire police force, the media, and most likely the pope himself. On the other side, my innocence. This does not add up to a terribly encouraging bottom line. ~ Jeff Lindsay

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants. ~ Mick Rock

There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it's just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well. ~ Aubrey Peeples

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening. ~ Noam Chomsky

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life. ~ Andrew Weil

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Being able to be presented with differing opinions on the same issue is one of the glories of a free media, and it should make people stop and think. But a lot of people don't want to. They don't want to admit that whatever line being touted by their idol of the moment might not be unbiased and without ulterior motive. ~ Mira Grant

This is the new Republican victimology: The liberal media is maliciously misrepresenting the views of a rough-hewn but sincere salt-of-the-earth conservative, even when his plain words indict him as an ignoramus or an opportunist. ~ Mike Lofgren

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. ~ Noam Chomsky

Value system also comes from the mass media of the land. ~ Sunday Adelaja

You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things. ~ Yani Tseng

In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting ... if ever it was. ~ Donna Lynn Hope

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention. ~ Dylan Moran

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it. ~ Michael Showalter

When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others. ~ John Patrick Hickey

When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered. ~ Joey Skaggs

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening. ~ Sibel Edmonds

Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it. ~ Terrell Owens

I have had a lot of cool offers to move into traditional media, but I'm not completely sold I have to do that. ~ Jenna Marbles