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Media Quotes by Todd Gitlin
- Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other…
- I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
- Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
- I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say…
- The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction…
More Media Quotes
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people… — Roseanne Barr
- If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever… — Alec Baldwin