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I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness. -- Jeff Lemire
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. -- Jacques Ellul
So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish. -- Alexander Downer
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. -- Jay Griffiths
I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that. -- Alberto Gonzales
I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on. -- Israel Broussard
The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society. -- Tariq Ramadan
We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media. -- Aloe Blacc
Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us. -- Ramez Naam
The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are. -- Hannah Storm
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. -- Jared Diamond
We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue. -- Ali Babacan
When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life. -- Jeremy Gilley
The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper. -- Michael Moore
I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. -- Todd Gitlin
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. -- Sunday Adelaja
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco. -- David Grossman
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. -- Robert McChesney
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. -- Robert McChesney
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor. -- Deborah Prothrow-Stith
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony. -- Paul Goodman
My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society. -- Orlan
We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society. -- Amy Goodman
Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy. -- Anita Sarkeesian
The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human. -- Donald Phillip Verene
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Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership. -- Mark Zuckerberg
We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it. -- Cynthia Daignault
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication. -- Rowan Williams
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away. -- Peter Jackson
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media. -- Terence McKenna
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society. -- Jim Hightower

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