Quotes and Sayings about Media

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

One should never forget, that society would rather be amused than instructed.

Give me your love and not your like!

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

People can say some extraordinary things when they're hiding behind a keyboard.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The Internet is like a wave. You either learn to swim with it or you sink.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a... collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.

The number of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12.

A friendly guide about wether I'll be watching your Instagram stories:
______ ______ ______ (maybe)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (hell no!)

I find Social Media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation.

Social Media is now the best way for us to introduce ourselves to the world, right? What we reveal or what we hide about ourselves, tells a story of who we are.

I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

We need to think about how young people use social networks. When things get out of hand we may have to regulate them or cut them off.

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

It doesn't matter who has the most friends or likes or followers. If you just have one or two great friends who will support you.

You'll never see a Lamborghini commercial in TV again. People who are able to afford a Lamborghini have better things to do than watching TV.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Television speeded everything up.

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

Another evening of staring at the big screen while scrolling through my small screen to reward myself for staring at the medium screen all day.

We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it.

Come on Ted, it's 2012. What do you expect, to meet some cute travel agent when you're reading a newspaper at a bookstore? None of those things exist anymore!

How about a copy of the New York Times? It's like reading the internet, but on paper!

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

I love radio - it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

Radio isn't just a jukebox for music anymore because you can get music anywhere.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Fake news travel quick and far.

April 1st - The only day of the year where people question the stuff they read on the internet.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me... and marvel stupidly.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

I won't go forward looking in the rearview mirror of my life. This is who I am.

I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.