1,406 Quotes About Media

His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.

The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Teddy White lamented that TV might spell the death of serious politics: to give a thoughtful response to serious questions, politician needed a good thirty seconds to ponder, but television allowed only five seconds of silence at best. DDB (ad men) found nothing to lament and the fact. They were convinced you could learn everything you needed to KNOW about a product, which in this case happens to be a human being, in half a minute – the speed not of thought but of emotion.

Education was central to reporting.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

The idea of the original had no place.