Analysis Quote by Laurie Garrett

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of…

— Hedrick Smith

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from…

— Carl Bernstein

The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you…

— Om Malik

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or…

— William Bernbach

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy,…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

— Eric Alterman

“Celebrity’ is increasingly the only role the media can process,”

— Charlie Brooker

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

— Ethan Zuckerman

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

— Alexander Stille

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

— Joel Grey

“What excites the media is that someone has a great idea or vision and makes millions as a result. The reality is that rarely…

— Kevin Kelly

“If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead…

— Jaron Lanier