"The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it."
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"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."
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"Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?"
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"Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America."
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"You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place."
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"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
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"She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't like, and I always felt frustrated because I felt like I was a communication artist or a media artist. The best advertising is one of the art forms of our culture."
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"You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere."
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"I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century."
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"Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media."
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"I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money."
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"I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated."
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"The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard."
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"Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it."
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"Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand."
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"I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media."
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"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on."
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"I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?"
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