Clive James Quotes

I think the media is a real demon.

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar.

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.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

All media work us over completely.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who’s piloting the plane.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

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