Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
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.
People see whatever the media first reports.
I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.
By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.
A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
The media can be a really strong vehicle.
My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.
What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to say that they have failed us, but I can't help it... I love Movies.
People had kind of a spooky feeling about ventriloquists after 'The Twilight Zone.'
I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.
No matter what was written or what was charged, the harmful effect was largely washed away as soon as the reassuring voice of the President of the United States started coming through the ether into the family living-room.
Commenting on the power of radio:
The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.
The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally.
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.
I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.
Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.
I don't think a camera and a cameraman can destroy a family.
Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.
