Joss Whedon Quotes

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Television has become the primary precinct of politics.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

There is a feedback loop between Trump and TV that is both good and bad.

The media do strange things.

Roger Ailes's effect on politics was much longer-lasting than Richard Nixon's, even though Nixon was elected president twice.

You and I make the mistake of assuming that the Republican Party doesn't like the media. You and I make the mistake of assuming the Republican Party is as suspicious and distrustful of the media as you and I are, but they're not.

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking