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What happens in the West is that there is
no border between state interest and commercial
interest. The edges of the state, as a result
of privatization, are fuzzed and blurred
out into the edges of companies. So, when
you look at how The Guardian behaves, or
how The New York Times behaves, it is part
of that mesh of corporate and state interests
seamlessly blurring into each other.
Julian
Assange - Western
- Media
- Companies
- Government
- Newspapers
It really is my opinion that media in general
are so bad that we have to question whether
the world wouldn't be better off without
them altogether. They are so distortive
to how the world actually is that the result
is.. we see wars, and we see corrupt governments
continue on.
Julian
Assange - Media
- Lies
- Opinions
- Bad
- Geopolitics
- War
- Corrupt
One of the hopeful things that I’ve
discovered is that nearly every war that
has started in the past 50 years has been
a result of media lies. The media could've
stopped it if they had searched deep enough;
if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda
they could've stopped it.
Julian
Assange - Media
- Lies
- Government
- Propaganda
- War
I have never watched property programmes.
I watch Property Ladder, because I feel
it’s very rude for a director to work
very hard on a programme and you can’t
be bothered to even watch it. So I do watch
it, but I have to turn away when I’m
on screen. It’s quite unpleasant seeing
myself up there.
Sarah
Beeny - Real
Estate - Media
- Hard
Work
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible
government sift the data and high-spot the
outstanding issues so that our field of
choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions.
From our leaders and the media they use
to reach the public, we accept the evidence
and the demarcation of issues bearing upon
public questions; from some ethical teacher,
be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or
merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized
code of social conduct to which we conform
most of the time.
Edward
Bernays - Government
- Leaders
- Ethics
- Media
- Social
- Teacher
The problem is the average person isn’t
tuned in to lifelong learning, or going
to seminars and so forth. If the information
is not on television, and it’s not
in the movies they watch, and it’s
not in the few books that they buy, they
don’t get it.
Jack
Canfield - Learning
- Improvement
- Problems
- Media
- Books
They own you. They own everything. They
own all the important land. They own and
control the corporations. They’ve long
since bought and paid for the Senate, the
Congress, the state houses, the city halls.
They got the judges in their back pockets
and they own all the big media companies,
so they control just about all of the news
and information you get to hear. They got
you by the balls. They spend billions of
dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to
get what they want. Well, we know what they
want. They want more for themselves and
less for everybody else, but I’ll tell
you what they don’t want. They don’t
want a population of citizens capable of
critical thinking. They don’t want
well-informed, well-educated people capable
of critical thinking. They’re not interested
in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s
against their interests.
George
Carlin - America
- Stupid
- Big
Business - Control
- Politicians
- Media
- Congress
- News
- Lobby
- Billions
- Greed
They’ll get it all from you sooner
or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place.
It’s a big club and you ain't in it.
You and I are not in the big club. By the
way, it’s the same big club they use
to beat you over the head with all day long
when they tell you what to believe. All
day long beating you over the head with
their media telling you what to believe,
what to think and what to buy. The table
is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and
nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to
care. Good, honest, hard-working people:
white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t
matter what color shirt you have on.
George
Carlin - Media
- Greed
- Media
- Belief
- Thinking
- Working
Class - Middle
Class
You know, in this business, you don't have
any control over what the press says and
how they portray things. And that's their
prerogative. But I think anybody who looks
at it objectively has trouble making the
case that somehow this is a bad economy.
Dick
Cheney - Politicians
- Media
- Economy
- Control
The current perception I get from the evening
news is that the world is dominated by human
failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption,
and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see
how the human mind is evolving, but the
media keeps hammering home the opposite,
that the human mind is mired in darkness
and folly.
Deepak
Chopra - Media
- Failure
- Negative
I stand by this man (President George W.
Bush). I stand by this man because he stands
for things. Not only for things, he stands
on things. Things like aircraft carriers
and rubble and recently flooded city squares.
And that sends a strong message, that no
matter what happens to America, she will
always rebound.. with the most powerfully
staged photo ops in the world.
Stephen
Colbert - Funny
- President
- Politicians
- America
- Strength
- Media
- Crisis
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial,
you're going to get attention.
Simon
Cowell - Media
- Controversy
I can't think of one person who is on TV
who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast.
If you are on TV then you have a vanity,
for sure. Just admit it! Why not?
Simon
Cowell - Truth
- Media
- Television
- Vain
I don't take myself seriously all the time;
I have to do quirky things, such as helping
football teams, moving the ball away from
McAllister's foot, getting into The Sun
and The Star - because, you know, I like
sensationalism, it's a part of what I do.
Uri
Geller - Marketing
- Help
- Media
Remarks such as ‘great Australian’, ‘larger than life’
are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry
Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great
Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his
mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly
in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport
John
Howard - Media
- Passions
- Business
- Australia
To my mind, you cannot speak about the need
for leadership within our communities without
being prepared to take on responsibility
yourself. It’s not enough to point
the finger at those who have let us down
and to expect others to come forward and
fix our problems. Nor can anyone afford
to call themselves a leader unless they
truly have the interests of our community
at heart. Too many people like to think
they are leaders and too many are identified
by the media as leaders who are not really
leaders at all.
Jackie
Huggins - Leadership
- Responsibility
- Problems
- Media
I make it a point not to buy certain magazines,
not because I am against tabloids or things
like that, but I want to fill my mind with
valid issues in the world.
Angelina
Jolie - Media
- Values
- World
- Tabloid
I do ask every publisher, every editor,
and every newsman in the nation to reexamine
his own standards, and to recognize the
nature of our country's peril. In time of
war, the government and the press have customarily
joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline,
to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the
enemy. In time of "clear and present
danger," the courts have held that
even the privileged rights of the First
Amendment must yield to the public's need
for national security.
John
F. Kennedy - USA
- War
- Government
- Danger
- Enemy
- Security
- Press
- First
Amendment - News
- Media
- Journalism
- JFK
Speech
Time Magazine has to change its name to
God Weekly. This week, Mary is on the cover
again. In the last two years, Time has put
out: "The Secrets of the Nativity",
"The God Gene", "Faith, God
and the Oval Office", "The Bible
and the Apocalypse", "Who Was
Moses?", "What Jesus Saw",
"Why Did Jesus Have to Die?",
"Jesus in 2000." If Jesus gets
any more free press, he's going to start
thinking he's Paris Hilton. Look, I understand
we have a lot of Christians in this nation,
but how about a little equal time? "Vishnu
to Ganesh: Drop Dead". And "Is
There No Pleasing Zeus?"
Bill
Maher - Jesus
- Christianity
- God
- Bible
- Faith
- Media
- Religion
If you're a careerist, thinking only to
advance your media career, then I don't
really want to work with you.
Michael
Moore - Career
- Media
The self-anointed media elite among us believe,
somewhat self-servingly, that not only the
act, or process of making a profit is positively
sinister, but also that the very desire
to do so is.
Lachlan
Murdoch - Media
- Belief
- Profits
- Criticism
There is no room for dictating taste in
the diverse and dynamic world of media.
To limit taste only limits the role we play
for people of all kinds.
Lachlan
Murdoch - Media
- Consumer
- Products
- Diversity
Intelligent media companies strive to provide
both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking
and reflective articles, art house and popular
movies. Not to be open minded in providing
a full range of quality media would be a
failure to serve the breadth and depth of
the communities we live in.
Lachlan
Murdoch - Media
- Culture
- Products
- Failure
- Intelligent
- Diversity
The profit motive is not only fundamental
to our ability to reward shareholders and
pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent
journalism. Far from corrupting the craft,
profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity
and diversity protects and strengthens our
craft.
Lachlan
Murdoch - Growth
- Journalism
- Media
- Profits
- Employee
- Stocks
- Strength
- Diversity
The industry is littered with self-styled
purists who believe the business of media..
the requirement to make a profit.. somehow
corrupts the craft.
Lachlan
Murdoch - Business
- Media
- Belief
- Profits
I have been privileged to grow up retaining
the love of good journalism, the craft,
while learning its business: the dollars
and cents. I
have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive
but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent
on the other.
Lachlan
Murdoch - Journalism
- Business
- Media
- Profits
- Money
- Learning
There is so much media now with the Internet
and people, and so easy and so cheap to
start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s
just millions of voices and people want
to be heard.
Rupert
Murdoch - Internet
- Technology
- Media
Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media
companies are aggressive.
Rupert
Murdoch - Change
- Companies
- Media
- Growth
News.. communicating news and ideas, I guess.. is my passion. And giving
people alternatives so that they have two papers to read and alternative television
channels.
Rupert
Murdoch - Media
- Ideas
- Passion
As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest
in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we
still think it’s worthwhile.
Rupert
Murdoch - Change
- Media
- Government
- Competition
- Investments
Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter.
As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well
as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment
and news. There's just more opportunity.
Rupert
Murdoch - Media
- Internet
- Company
- Opportunity
We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what
we're doing is already, or soon will be, little more than the standard way of
doing business. We can do something that's unique, different from just any other
company. We can set an example, and we can reach our audiences. Our audience's
carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours. That's the carbon footprint
we want to conquer.
Rupert
Murdoch - Carbon
- Responsibility
- Business
- Media
- Influential
- Encouragement
- Companies
Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts
on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning the State of
California off for almost two months.
Rupert
Murdoch - Climate
Change - Media
- Influential
- Imagination
- Inspirational
- Success
News
Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking...
when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact.
The unique potential..
and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues
that define our time.
Rupert
Murdoch - Responsibility
- Media
- Influential
- Encouragement
- Companies
- Thinking
- Help
We're
not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing
newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour
newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.
Rupert
Murdoch - Climate
Change - Responsibility
- Carbon
- Media
- Companies
- News
Climate
change and energy use are global problems. News
Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the
world.
Rupert
Murdoch - Climate
Change - Responsibility
- Global
Warming - Media
- World
- Problems
- Environmental
My take on the whole dot-com bubble was
that a lot of people who wanted to make
a lot of money got too excited and hyped
up the commercial aspects of the Internet
prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet
as a democratizing medium.. as everyone's
printing press.. is real. We got distracted
from that by the mass hallucinations of
the bubble.
Craig
Newmark - Greed
- Internet
- Money
- Media
I’m not a member of the permanent political
establishment. And I’ve learned quickly
these past few days that if you’re
not a member in good standing of the Washington
elite, then some in the media consider a
candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
But here’s a little news flash for
all those reporters and commentators: I’m
not going to Washington to seek their good
opinion. I’m going to Washington to
serve the people of this country.
Sarah
Palin - Politicians
- Politics
- Media
- Journalism
- Opinions
- Washington
- America
- News
I knew very little about television, I knew
very little about cable, cable programming.
But my instincts were right.
Sumner
Redstone - Media
- Instinct
At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone
said I had overpaid. But even at today's
depressed prices, that investment is worth
billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a
fad. I knew better.
Sumner
Redstone - Media
- Buying
- Instinct
- Advice
- Investing
The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the
time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to
think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of
the industry. (Sumner talking about firing Tom Cruise)
Sumner
Redstone - Media
- Wages
I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in
the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get
reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review,
bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd
experience when it happens to you.
J.
K. Rowling - Success
- Ambition
- Book
- Media
- Famous
I
didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on
the beach through long lenses. I never dreamt it would impact my daughter's life
negatively, which at times it has. It would be churlish to say there's nothing
good about being famous; to have a total stranger walk up to you as you're walking
around Safeways, and say a number of nice things that they might say about your
work... I mean of course you walk on with a bit more spring in your step.
J.
K. Rowling - Media
- Famous
- Negative
- Dreams
Our
strength stems from the fact that we have some of the best brains in the communications,
media and entertainment industry.
Harindra
Singh - Strength
- Media
- Employee
- Best
I
don’t believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I’d
rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because
I don’t talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do
have an attitude.
Shailendra
Singh - Media
- Work -
Money
- Business
- Attitude
Participant
(Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom
line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns
are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're
really after.
Jeff
Skoll - Media
- Profits
- Companies
- Business
Ethics - Social
- Earnings
The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant
Productions company).
Jeff
Skoll - Media
- Social
- Goals
- Branding
On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time,
24-hour news networks.
Jon
Stewart - Media
When all is said and done, what must be
remembered is a newspaper is a business.
It used to be a fabulous business that made
extraordinary margins. It's now a very good
business with appropriate margins.
Sam
Zell - Companies
- News
- Business
- Media
- Profits
I think there's confusion around what the
point of social networks is. A lot of different
companies characterized as social networks
have different goals - some serve the function
of business networking, some are media portals.
What we're trying to do is just make it
really efficient for people to communicate,
get information and share information.
Mark
Zuckerberg - Sharing
- Facebook
- Social
Network - Media
- Communicate
- Internet
It's not because of the amount of money.
For me and my colleagues, the most important
thing is that we create an open information
flow for people. Having media corporations
owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive
idea to me.
Mark
Zuckerberg - Sharing
- Facebook
- Media
- Money
- Conglomerate
- Important
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