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Media, the plural of mediocrity. -- Jimmy Breslin
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. -- Jim Morrison
Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur. -- Michael P. Naughton
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. -- Marshall McLuhan
Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power. -- Julian Assange
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. -- Malcolm X
Media is Munchausen by proxy. -- Jennifer Sodini
'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'. -- Rene Saguisag
The media doesn't always reflect reality. -- John Catsimatidis
Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Social Media begins with a story - your story. -- Germany Kent
Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset. -- David Meerman Scott
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg
The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals. -- Mason Cooley
Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another -- Chuck Todd
Media access to us is more regulated than in golf. -- Pete Sampras
Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena. -- Duncan Hunter
Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms. -- Jackson Katz
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. -- Graham Greene
Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies -- Julian Assange
Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good. -- Duncan William Gibbons
Social Media brands faster than any other existing Marketing plan and for much cheaper! -- Germany Kent
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment. -- Marshall McLuhan
I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania. -- Bam Margera
Social Media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. -- Erik Qualman
Go to the Sydney Institute Media Watch Dog website to marvel at [its] work -- Mark Latham
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course. -- Thomas Frank
I can't control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media] -- Germany Kent
We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters. -- Sandra Chami Kassis
Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children? -- Neil Gaiman
The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. -- Jimmy Swaggart
Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don't have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media] -- Germany Kent
No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog. -- Chris Brogan
The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other. -- JR
Content-based marketing gets repeated in social media and increases word-of-mouth mentions; it's the best way to gather buzz about a product. -- Marsha Collier
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all. -- Nicola Formichetti
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous. -- Edward de Bono
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. -- Marshall McLuhan
All the media are horrible. -- Laura Dekker
The media loves negative spin. -- Chloe Sevigny
I don't think about the media. -- Zara Phillips
The media can't get anything straight. -- Gore Vidal
I don't watch the media that much. -- Don Lemon
Don't hate the media, become the media. -- Jello Biafra
Homosexuals are riding high in the media. -- Pat Robertson
Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology. -- Brian Solis
The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media. -- Ariel Pink
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. -- Akbar S. Ahmed
In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities. -- Yishan Wong
I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media. -- Bernard Goldberg
Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact. -- Felicia Day
I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama. -- Peter Jackson
You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media. -- Patrick Chappatte
Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before -- Dahr Jamail
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever. -- Daniel Goleman
The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. -- Carson Daly
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being -- Thomas Jefferson
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -- Malcolm X
Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun. -- Evan Spiegel
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. -- Alva Myrdal
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media. -- Noam Chomsky
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression. -- Marshall McLuhan
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level. -- William Bernbach
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. -- Evgeny Morozov
To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged. -- Aliza Sherman
The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. -- Jeremy Rifkin
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. -- Gore Vidal
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. -- Howard Zinn
Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand. -- Amy Jo Martin
Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media? -- Robert McChesney
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth. -- Anthony Carmona
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. -- Alex Steffen
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become. -- Amy Goodman
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process. -- Jane Green
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment. -- Martin Rees
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. 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. -- Philip K. Dick
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. -- Douglas Rushkoff
My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance. -- Herman Cain
What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. -- David Gerrold
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions... -- Gore Vidal
We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are. -- Ben Carson
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts. -- Naomi Wolf
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too. -- Bill Moyers
Passion is the gasoline of social media, -- Jay Baer
We need to police ourselves in the media. -- Bob Woodward
The media ignores what is really going on. -- Nat Hentoff
Maybe it is the media that has us divided. -- Laura Bush
Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Social media is where losers go to feel important. -- Charles Barkley
The media in America has become so cowed and compromised. -- John Sayles
You must fight social media fire with social media water. -- Jay Baer
Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy. -- Geoff Mulgan
President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is. -- Yousef Munayyer
Social media does not change your culture, it reveals it. -- Sandy Carter
Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun. -- Pete Cashmore
With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media. -- Charles Kennedy
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip. -- Kate Adie
Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions. -- Lindsey Graham
Social media has made the web all about me, me, me. -- Erik Qualman
Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally. -- Aeriel Miranda
The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe. -- George Orwell
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media. -- Noam Chomsky
The media builds you up, and then it tears you down. -- Thomas Keller
I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media. -- Bryce Harper
All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different. -- Maurice Saatchi
I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media. -- Tony Hawk
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. -- Huey Newton
I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy. -- Bob Brown
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. -- Ted Koppel
Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer. -- Jay Baer
Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage. -- Amy Jo Martin
Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for other marketing tactics. Social media is not an island. It's a high-power engine on the larger marketing ship. -- Matthew Dickman
Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate. -- Mark Cuban
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. -- Axl Rose
I'm holding a media mutiny. -- Bart Scott
Social media really grew up. -- Kevin Rose
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