What’s Wrong With Media
Pramit SinghFounder, Bighow.com
World’s Best Tool For Online Journalism
What is wrong with media 2
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