Carl Sagan Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Media Quotes

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

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Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally.

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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.

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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

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We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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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.

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She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

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For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

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There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.

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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

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To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.

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The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

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Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

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The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

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You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.

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There's so much negativity in the media.

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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.

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