That’s why I refused. But after the media.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.

I think maybe since there isn’t a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don’t understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad

So ultimately, it’s idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

I don’t think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that’s been thrown at them.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position

In the media, they’re always talking about money. I’m not denying that it plays a role, but everything has to be in its right place.

For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.

I don’t think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it’s a real crime.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

The media crucify me like they did Christ.

A lot of what gets on the radio isn’t saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they’re told to get it.

Golf Media Is Basically My Brain In One Place. It Does Just About Everything Except Cure Asthma. If You Find An App That Cures Asthma, Definitely Let Me Know

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

There were so much affairs of me created by the media… of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too

The other girls [in team] have experience. They’ve been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect and what to do and what not to do. Me and Aly [Raisman] just gave them advice on the media side. We said, it’s gonna be crazy. It’s the Olympics. But it’s gonna be fun!

With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today’s culture, I think it’s super important to promote staying smart online.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody’s thought of calling them art, when people still think they’re just a load of junk.

It’s been a tsunami of media and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.

It hurts that, you know, the media’s made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I don’t have any feelings, and, you know, it hurts like anyone else.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

When I first arrived in America, in an effort to drum up enthusiasm, I was billed by the media as ‘the White Pele’…I decided to put everything right, though, at my first press conference when I told the assembled media that I was not ‘the White Pele’ and that Pele was in fact ‘the Black George Best.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists’ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.

Power can be very addictive. And it can be corrosive. And it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another.

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn’t want you to know something, it won’t be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, ‘You don’t have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin’ look like jerkin.

The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.

Britney’s a real class act in terms of the way she handles herself in the media and embraces new artists. She’s always really kind, I’ve always admired that about her.