Judith Butler Quotes

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

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

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.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

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

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

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.

The [media] coverage is always, "Will [Democrats] get it? Will they get what they want?" And, really, it's even worse than that. It's not, "Will they get it?" It's "How soon will they get it, and what are the villains gonna do to try to stop them from getting it?"

The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

I don't think Mike Tyson's a bad guy. I think the people, the media, makes him out to be a bad guy.

When you do a computerized poll, where people are comfortable, Donald Trump vote goes up very dramatically. And I think people don't realize the effort by the elite media, the totally dishonest effort to submerge him, has had an effect.

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.

It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. And people who rely on the media, like Mr. Trump, think that everything is a disaster. The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish. It's a point of fact that we're doing extremely well.

There's an obsession by the media to delegitimize Donald Trump, and we are not going to sit around and let it happen. We're going to fight back tooth and nail every day, and twice on Sunday.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.