Media proverbs

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◆ A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

- Edward R. Murrow99

◆ Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

- Jim Morrison99

◆ A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

- Joseph Stalin99

◆ Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

- Philip K. Dick99

◆ The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

- James Madison99

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

- Will Rogers99

◆ People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

- Karl Lagerfeld99

◆ The media is the right arm of anarchy.

- Dan Brown99

◆ If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

- Warren Ellis99

◆ I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

- Frank Zappa99

◆ Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

- Chuck Klosterman99

◆ I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

- Dave Barry99

◆ Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

- Russell Brand99

◆ Nobody should be judged on their looks. Beauty is not found on the body but in the soul. The only thing the media has done is change the definition of the word. I mean being attractive may make it easier to catch some one but being kind and loving is how you keep some one. Also with make up its like putting on a mask some masks are creative and fun most others are just used to cover who you really are up. Be yourself.

- Danyon Guthrie-lewis99

◆ Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper

- Charles Peguy98