Jimmy Wales Quotes

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

The media is the Democrat Party.

I do not believe so many Turks suspect my activities. The idea that this movement of volunteers is suspected by many Turks arises in the same way and for the same reasons that the world hears more about those Muslims whom the media call radicals. Since those who give this impression are extremely loud, some observers can be deceived.

I tell them that Im a lesbian but doesnt seem to matter to them - they see in the media is that we havent met the right guy yet, or that weve been raped or abused by our daddies and were just waiting for Mr. Right to come sweep us off our feet, and Im really tired of seeing that.

What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

Even in this case, whatever it is, it's about [Barack] Obama. "How did Obama do at the memorial? Did Obama come off well? Will Obama's poll numbers go up? Did he really reach people?" The hell that there are 53 people dead. Nobody cares about them, like nobody cared about the four dead in Benghazi. All the media cared about, how did Obama do?

The Republicans have never had, in their story - conservatives, either, have never had... I'm talking this in a media context, now. They've never had an agenda or a story that the media would like them to have.

One out of five voters voted on this, and 70 percent of the issues that people voted on issues and they thought the media was inventing the controversy. It is no like they didn't hold him accountable - the Supreme Court is number one.

Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.

About 97% of the media is created by men.

I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody.

The media really only pays attention to white people. I think America is really racist.