Sophie Pascoe Quotes

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

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

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

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.

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.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

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

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

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.

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

Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.

People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval and their own success - and their writing reflects that.

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.

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

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

I think a lot of the media and reporters, they let what I get into and my outside life interfere with my boxing life, and they let that cross, and that should never cross.

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.