Collectively, we are in thrall to media – because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live. – Todd Gitlin
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn’t influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television. – Val Kilmer
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the ‘artistic’ potential of television qua television are equally deluded. – Will Self
Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile. – Tim LaHaye
Cable companies aren’t bad because they’re parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They’re bad because they’re monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service. – Virginia Postrel
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, ‘You’ve got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.’ And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. – Ted Cruz
As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at all times, stories of the law enforcement’s unease with that have been popping up in the press. And of course, the ones that become viral videos aren’t exactly flattering for law enforcement. – Sarah Lacy
The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next. – Shawn Amos
When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I’m trying to determine who’s leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one. – Tim Reid
I think it’s pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files. – Shawn Fanning
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day. – Tamora Pierce
The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change. – Simon Mainwaring
People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum. – Soulja Boy
Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products. – Tucker Max
I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I’ve been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research. – William Gibson
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone. – Walter Kirn
Preconceived judgments. I think we’re all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It’s such a disease and gets spread so much through social media. – Suki Waterhouse
I’m not looking to be dominating all the media outlets … to talk about any issue just to be on TV, I’m not your guy. I’m not going to be ‘the black Republican’. I’m going to be a Republican who happens to be black who will talk about issues that I’m passionate about that are specific to the agenda that I want to accomplish. – Tim Scott
Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema. – Wesley Morris
It’s the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign. – William Westmoreland
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. – Simon Mainwaring
I think people respond to dystopian stories because they’re ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media’s coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don’t know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story. – Suzanne Collins
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons. – Tim Wise
It’s understandable that when something new comes out that’s unfamiliar, scary, and has severe outcomes, it gets a lot of media attention. In fact, the Zika outbreak is unprecedented. We’ve never before identified a mosquito-borne infection that can cause fetal malformations. – Tom Frieden
The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it’s constructive, but I’m now at a crossroads. I’ve accumulated a lot of followers, and it’s great, but I’m also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much. – Toyin Odutola