Beau Willimon Quotes

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.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

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.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

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.

I think the media is a real demon.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

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

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.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

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.

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.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.

I think that, in my humble opinion, that the world is divided, and the media has a very good, a very predictable habit of emphasizing whatever will keep people clicking.

People see whatever the media first reports.

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

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

The media cause more problems than they do good.