Bruce Jackson Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

The media cause more problems than they do good.

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

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

The media is not going to change.

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.

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

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

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.

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.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The media can make or break an administration.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

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

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

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

The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.