Media Exclusion Quotes

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have access to these people, we don't have access. We don't go to dinners we don't have cocktail parties. We don't you know, you've seen what happens when one of us ends up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it doesn't end well.

Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media.

Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.

You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

If the radio ever played my music, I would sue them. And they know it, which is why they don't play my music.

Growing up, I never saw Asian-Americans on TV at all.

The shutting out or boycotting of selected media cannot take place in Austria.

Is it really the right of the media to dictate to the president whom he will allow in his press conferences? That's tetchier. And then there is the added issue of whether it would be a service to their readers, and the country at large, for, say, the Washington Post to take itself out of the room -- meaning they don't have the ability to ask important questions the president is obliged to answer? I think that would be a mistake.

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'

We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.

What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.

We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.

I'm not avoiding Fox, but they don't seem to want me to be on their shows much. I can't understand that.