Gloria Steinem Quotes

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren't marketable, that these things don't sell.

I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody.

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

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.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

All you see on television are debased images.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

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

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.