"Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right."
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"The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries."
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"In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness."
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"It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state."
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"Don't use social media to impress people; use it to impact people."
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"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."
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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."
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"As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation."
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"Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure."
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"Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain."
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"I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas."
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"Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally."
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"Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it."
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"An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply to communicate factual information."
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"The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator."
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"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication."
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"The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality."
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"Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament."
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"The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends."
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"We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment."
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