Alexa Chung Quotes

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen.

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.

I am interested in the press and what they do.

I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.

The media is so powerful.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

I think the press is here to inform and empower people.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

Everybody's vying for people's attention in terms of eyeballs, earholes, and dollars.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.