Tom Green Quotes

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

The media is so powerful.

When I went to college, I majored in anti-war demonstrations, you know? I mean, really!

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

I don't really try to take notice of all the media. I just try to stay focused on my game.

When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.

There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go to the party convention, who can't take part in politics, because they're holding down a job to pay their tuition. These are kids who want to do public service, who want to get involved politically, but their financial situation is precarious.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.

If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.

Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.