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"A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does."
"Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently."
"I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want."
"It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press."
"I hear YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are merging to form a super Social Media site - YouTwitFace."
"We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege."
"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside."
"Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated."
"Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in."
"You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it."
"The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias."
"Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion."
"It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better."
"What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media."
"All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions."
"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
"The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will."
"In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground."
"Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them."
"I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it."
