Useful and amusing media quotations

 “All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.”  William Bernbach

“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.”  Malcom X

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values”  Marshall McLuhan

“The media tends to report rumours, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.” Peter McWilliams

“The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.” Corazon Aquino

“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.”

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” Robert Bresson

“It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.” Senator John Kerry

“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

‘If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event... what kind of film would you use?’  ~Unkown Journalist Author

‘Harmony seldom makes a headline.’  ~Silas Bent

‘With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.’  ~Kingman Brewster, Jr.

The Internet is the world's largest library.  It's just that all the books are on the floor.  ~John Allen Paulos

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame.  ~M.G. Sriram

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.  ~Andrew Brown

The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now.  It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people.  ~Frank James

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.  ~Robert Wilensky, 1996

Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance.  ~Paul Carvel

The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control.  By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.  ~Vinton Cerf

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.  ~Rupert Murdoch

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives."  We don't care.  We have each other.  ~Dave Barry

Twitter is just a multiplayer notepad.  ~Ben Maddox

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.  ~Robert Brault

Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave.  ~Dita Von Teese

On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us.  In real life we get really scared and run away.  ~Author Unknown
[W]e're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it.  So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.  ~Bill Clinton