Media Advocacy Quotes

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten so out of control, it's become bigger than the presidency itself.

I've often felt that it was important to have an MMA media association, not so much to fight battles and things of that nature but also to teach a lot of the younger journalists.

Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

Television has the power to push for change. We need to push it in that direction.

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.

So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.