Al Gore Quotes

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

The funny thing about Facebook and Twitter is, you can go on there and see what's going on in the world without watching the news. I get so much news off of social media. I think it's cool. It's changed everything, not just music. It's changed the world. It definitely is a good thing. I don't really know what I think of it yet more than that. I haven't really sorted that out for myself.

I think we all have a love/hate relationship with the media.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

I don't watch the media that much.

It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

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.

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 was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

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.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.