Carl Lewis Quotes

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

I, of course, am not influenced by the television cameras, but some members are.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

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.

Whoever said I hated the media?

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.

I don't always agree with how everybody handles the media, just like they probably don't agree with how I handle the media and things that I say.

The media do strange things.

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his view of what the presidency should be about is the media and how he is reflected in the media.

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

Donald Trump - you can say a lot of negative things about him, and I do, and I think he's completely unprepared for the office, and he lacks the fabric to lead this nation, but if there's one thing that he understands, it's branding and how to navigate the media.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.

Public speaking is something I fear more than death itself.

I don't really think about the fact that a lot of people are watching 'DSDS' or about the way I should phrase my sentences.

The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

Members of the press have been so savaged by Trump and his propagandists in the media that journalists seem almost foreign or anti-American to his supporters.

We have a responsibility to show the public the kinds of truths that they don't see on the TV news or the Hollywood film.

I want to educate my daughter on presenting herself in the media and in the world.