One-way Communication Quotes

Social media is really not for conversations. There are people that you can meet and talk to on it, but it was not created for that. People wanted things that were soap boxes, where they could say what they wanted, and they don't have to respond to anyone else.

Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.

When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.

I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.

I definitely dish advice out more than I get it.

I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.