What’s Wrong With Media

Pramit SinghFounder, Bighow.com

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The Monopolies

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow

echo of a much simpler day.

- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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The Media-industrial Complex

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means

weakness.

- Eric Sevareid, "The Press and the People," TV program, 1959

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Misusing the power

You can crush a man with journalism.

- William Randolph Hearst

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The Goodwill is lost

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

- Graham Henry Greene

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Media is always right

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who

either saw them happen or talked to people who did.

These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up

after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

- Lemony Snickett

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There is no pause button

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a

really big, scary one.

- Art Buchwald, 1969

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There is no duty

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's

about tenth or eleventh on their list.

- Abbie Hoffman

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The self-importance

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk.

- Frank Zappa

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Self – Importance: the sequel

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for

people who can't read.

- Frank Zappa

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It just doesn't stop

What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the

puppy will stop whining.

- Mike Ditka

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If there is no news, create news

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never

knew Lord Jones was alive.

- G.K. Chesterton

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It is mostly noise

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with

the ignorance of the community.

- Oscar Wilde