#media

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#communication #confidence #error #establish #i

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. ↗

— John Perkins

#culture #day #detector #found #immediately

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#beautiful thing #become #call #catch #concentrate

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#believe #blame #convenient #everything #generally

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#capitalism #free #free market #generations #increasingly

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. ↗

— Herbert Read

#immediate #nobody #past #philosophies #seriously

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#candidates #media #money #problems #raising

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'? ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#baby #child #clutch #declare #grow

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#companies #get #information #lot #media

I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#deck #elected #even #get #i