Quotes about Media

As television has had a homogenizing effect on the accents and dialects of Americans, watering down accents and sanding down sharp twangs, Luther's Bible created a single German tongue. Suddenly millers from München could communicate with bakers from Bremen. Out of this grew a sense of a common heritage and facilitating communication among diverse regions.

Television is a performance, but apps actually reflect thought processes.

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!

Female singers should just be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish. "'The tomatoes of our salad are the females,'" Ruthanna said. "That was his exact quote. And that's why they call it Tomato-gate.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.