David Byrne Quotes

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

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

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.

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.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere a great power.

In Russia, as well as everywhere else, the true and lasting power is that of public opinion, and of those who know how to influence it.

The power and influence of public opinion has increased, and the driving force of the nosiest elements of public opinion tends in excited times to consist, not of majorities, but of minorities.

The court of public opinion is open 24 hours a day.

The only people right now capable of mobilizing the public are talk show hosts.

With the instrument of radio you can make public opinion. Perhaps even conquer a country.

Give me the writing of a nation's advertising and propaganda, and I care not who governs its politics.

The press tends to reflect what's important to the country.

It is far from a coincidence that the rise of the popular press spelled eventual doom for monarchs of all types. Once the news becomes democratized, governance is sure to follow.

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

The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express to the people the hope that we all have.

I'm not talking about what you hear from 5 per cent of the population on the radio, in the papers. I don't pay attention to it. I travel around the country. I'm happy I have a good relationship with the people.

All of us in social media and regular media, we're all competing for the same thing, which is this gap between something happening in the world and you knowing about it.

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.

In a mass television democracy - which all of us nowadays have - it is impossible to take basic political decisions with long-term consequences without the public knowing it, without the public understanding at least some of it, without the public forming its judgment, heterogeneous as it may be.

My mom gets mad because she'll read on Twitter or some message board that Spencer Paysinger is no good, and the Giants need to get rid of him. I tell her to stop reading that stuff because, at the end of the day, the media has no say on what happens in the locker room.

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.

I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.