“The establishment media doesn’t cover what really matters in this country, or what’s really going on in people’s lives. They will take words of mine out of context and spend a week obsessing over every single syllable, and then pretend to discover some hidden meaning in what I said.”— Donald Trump, realclearpolitics.com
“I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste... The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?”— Johnny Depp, vanityfair.com
“I just don’t know if movies can ever be considered art, because there’s so much money involved... It’s all about commerce. I don’t think art can come from that place.”— Johnny Depp, vanityfair.com
“From the Fast and the Furious to the disappearance of Flight 470 starring unidentified passengers, 33 gone in northwest Kenya post-civil war violence in Libya, Syria the Iraq insurgency, the insurgency in Ukraine, Pakistan, Nigeria a multitude in Mexico made anonymous in the movies, all of us... ...…”— Chris Campanioni, amazon.com
“I’ve learned to ignore everything. In the beginning, I thought I was too sensitive for this. I’d Google myself, and it would freak me out. Now, I could care less if they say I’m pregnant with twins by my brother.”— Kim Kardashian, schmulldog.wordpress.com
“Vogue wants us to believe that their publication is merely a reflection of cultural values, and not one of the most powerful shaping tools for those cultural values.”— Haley Mlotek, theawl.com
“You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.”— Donald Trump, marieclaire.co.uk
“American society celebrates people who publicly share their personal pain and channel it into something positive... Why should any of us expect people who have suffered profound trauma to relive it for our benefit or for the betterment of humanity?”— Edna Friedberg, theatlantic.com
“Most of us know that the media tell us our bodies are imperfect - too fat, to smelly, too wrinkled, or too soft. And, even though we may know it’s horse shit, these messages still seep into our brains and mess with our self-esteem. In a media-saturated country where most images of women and men have…”— Victoria Vantoch, amazon.com
“Interviewer: You have been very critical of the press. What would you like the press to do? Noam Chomsky: It’s very simple. I’d like the press to tell the truth about important things.”— Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info
“There are, by one count, 20,000 more public relations agents working to doctor the news today than there are journalists writing it.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“For years now, we have become almost numb to the violence in Baghdad: Deadly car bombings there conjure up no hashtags, no Facebook profile pictures with the Iraqi flag, and no Western newspaper front pages of the victims' names and life stories.”— Ishaan Tharoor, independent.co.uk
“Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture; Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete. Trainwreck is a blistering indictment of how history has normalized sexism as entertainment, defining—and destroying—the women we claim to love.”— Andi Zeisler, amazon.com
“Well, that was pretty awesome – and I mean that in the worst way. A number of people deserve vast condemnation here, from David Cameron, who may go down in history as the man who risked wrecking Europe and his own nation for the sake of a momentary political advantage, to the seriously evil editors…”— Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
“What makes a media company a media company and not a technology company or an ‘investment’ is that media companies have to explicitly straddle the lines of culture and commerce. They must produce meaning and money. They have to stand for something in the cultural realm beyond utility.”— Chris Lavergne, observer.com
“Last week, none of the three major cable news networks — CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC — carried Mrs. Clinton’s speech to a workers’ union in Las Vegas, where she debuted sharp new attack lines against Mr. Trump.Instead, each chose to broadcast a live feed of an empty podium in North Dakota, on a stage wh…”— Michael M. Grynbaum, nytimes.com
“I love that we have so many new sources now. Slate, Salon, BuzzFeed, The Daily Beast — they do great work. But with all the fragmentation of reporting and opinion, we've lost something important. The institutionalized weight of the press used to make a difference. It used to mean something if the Ti…”— Harry Evans, hollywoodreporter.com