Peer Steinbruck Quotes

Many people hardly ever see a politician as a person anymore. Instead, a politician is a shadow they watch on television, not knowing whether he is speaking impromptu or reading a text written for him by anonymous advisers or experts from a screen hidden behind the cameras. Citizens no longer perceive their politician as a living human being, for they never have and will never see him that way. They see only his image, created for them by TV, radio and newspaper commentators. It also happens, rather often, that politicians do not actually talk to each other but only to one another's shadows as they appear in the media.

What a lot the media, and especially Fox News, has messed up with me is they've made it seem like I'm trying to take away people's guns - that I'm against the Second Amendment.

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

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 media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

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.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

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

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

Candidates in the future should be chosen based on their ability to sell themselves over the television airwaves.

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.

I wouldn’t mind having the proceedings of the court sent out on television covering it gavel to gavel. But by the time most of the media do their editing and broadcasting, I’m afraid that the public will see an atypical sampling of the court. It will misinform the public rather than inform.

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

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.

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.