Media Impact Quotes

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.

During the last 20 years the advent of radio changed all the old rules of political campaigning( Now the successful advent of television, available for the first time this year in a presidential campaign, must again influence the planning of the campaign

I think the fact that 'Black Lightning,' 'Luke Cage' and 'Black Panther' have each made noise in their own way will only lead to different superheroes and different genres.

The media did not make Donald Trump, and they can't destroy him.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.

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

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

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

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties.

It's a curious thing about celebrity: being somebody who was one of the stars of one of the most popular television shows in history offers an opportunity. I look at it as an ambassadorial opportunity at times, where I can go to places and have the opportunity to do things and meet people that other people don't have.

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

1952 was the last year that television covered a political event as if television weren't there.

I have so much to thank reality TV for.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Politicians often say to me, 'Articles in the 'Observer' don't get me votes, but you get me money.'

The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.