Rasheed Wallace Quotes

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.

That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

You might say presidents are drafting the first chapter of their memoirs in these seventh-year State of the Union addresses. They're trying to get the public and the media to think about their presidencies in the way that they would like to have them thought of.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.