Tammy Bruce Quotes

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.

I think the media is a real demon.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel—these undisputedly are the great molders of public opinion and public morals to-day.

That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.