So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. Thom Yorke
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. Cat Stevens
We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us. Tracy Chapman
Even more worrying is the violence we do to our personal relationships when we let media consume time we might otherwise spend with each other. Hugh Mackay
It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. Michael Nesmith
Frankly, I'm more worried about the violence we do to ourselves and our children by allowing the media to create an expectation of instant gratification. Hugh Mackay
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. John Berger
When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. Ed Harris
I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media. Bob Woodward