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The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media. -- Monica Crowley
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media. -- Tammy Bruce
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. -- Siri Hustvedt
The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. -- Susan Faludi
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media. -- Martin Rees
With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online. -- G. Hannelius
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture. -- Charles W. Pickering
People are nervous about their kids, and they're worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they're living in. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. -- Marvin Olasky
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
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. -- Ben Edwards
New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food. -- Jeremy Lin
Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education. -- Tipper Gore
It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else. -- Walter Kirn
The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world. -- Meghan Daum
A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering. -- Steven Weber
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. -- Camille Paglia
I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. -- Jeremy Hunt
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and maker culture - that we tend to imagine its superficial aspects are all that define it. -- Paul Di Filippo
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
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg
Social media does not change your culture, it reveals it. -- Sandy Carter
Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally. -- Aeriel Miranda
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. -- Sunday Adelaja
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs. -- Jackson Katz
The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that. -- Yasmin Paige
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Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture. -- Bob Dylan
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I? -- Paul Watson
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. -- bell hooks
Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here. -- Michelle Shocked
We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change. -- Paul Watson
I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account. -- Misha Collins
Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate. -- Hans Haacke
Social Media has now become a part of our culture - you are either a part of it, or you ignore it. -- Zendaya
There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too. -- Joe Mimran
I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do. -- David Brooks
Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment weâ??re born? -- Chuck Palahniuk
Well, when it comes to inspiration, I come from San Diego originally - it's an un-media-hyped, sleepy sort of town, big on beach culture you know? -- Gary Jules
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The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint. -- George Will
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." -- Denise Duhamel
Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media. -- Baratunde Thurston
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves. -- Lady Gaga
I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture. -- Stefan Heym
When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response. -- John Cusack
Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education." -- Tipper Gore
In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies. -- Virginia Postrel

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