Sayings about Media
Don’t hate the media, become the media. ~ Jello Biafra
We don’t like what we don’t know or understand. Parents don’t like the thought of their kids embracing social media because they don’t fully understand the benefits and dangers. ~ Amy Jo Martin
If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media. ~ Bryan Adams
The media cause more problems than they do good. ~ Chris Kyle
The media can be a really strong vehicle. ~ Cecilia Bartoli
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. ~ Akbar S. Ahmed
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ~ Marshall McLuhan
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. ~ Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. ~ Allen Ginsberg
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. ~ Malcolm X
Social media is an amazing tool, but it’s really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact. ~ Felicia Day
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ~ Michel De Certeau
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line. ~ Stephen Hawking
Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate. ~ Mark Cuban
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. ~ Bruce Jackson
We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It’s supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us. ~ Tracy Chapman
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. ~ Jim Morrison
The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other. ~ JR
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less dissent. ~ Gore Vidal
Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time. ~ Raymond Arroyo
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it’s very difficult not to get swept up in it all. ~ Nicola Formichetti
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time. ~ Alexis Ohanian
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky. ~ Brene Brown
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane; he’d be using the media. ~ Joel Osteen
It’s important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media. ~ Billy Corgan
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. ~ Amy Jo Martin
Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage. ~ Amy Jo Martin
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous. ~ Edward de Bono
Maybe it is the media that has us divided. ~ Laura Bush
Media, the plural of mediocrity. ~ Jimmy Breslin
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. ~ Christopher Lasch
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. ~ Bill Nye
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. ~ Jacques Derrida
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. ~ Christopher Lasch
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever. ~ Daniel Goleman
Media is the collective communication outlets or tools that are used to store and deliver information or data. It is either associated with communication media, or the specialized mass media communication businesses such as print media and the press, photography, advertising, cinema, broadcasting (radio and television) and publishing.
Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.