| "People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. (via Search quotes)" L Neil Smith |
| "I love only two things in life - eating and writing. Nobody has ever asked me where I find the time to eat. (via Twitter)" BigFish School |
| "Old sports reporter to old court reporter: 'We're not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs might make a comeback.' (via Overheard in the Newsroom)" Anonymous |
| "I try to leave out the parts that people skip. (via Quote Garden)" Elmore Leonard |
| "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. (via Quote Garden)" Oscar Wilde |
| "Remember that people are the new media - and that consumers are your key partners for generating content and ideas to fill the ever-growing news cycles. (via Warc)" Karl Wilkström |
| "All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level. (via Search quotes)" William Bernbach |
| "Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.(via Search Quotes)" Jeremy Bentham |
| "The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. (via Search Quotes)" Kate Adie |
| "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. (via Search Quotes)" Niels Bohr |
| "The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. (via Quoteland.com)" Carl Bernstein |
| "All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level. (via Warc)" Bill Bernbach |
| "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. (via goodreads)" Apple Computer Inc. |
| "Movements should be highly attractive to brands because, if you get it right, they are so powerful that people become your media and do the work for you, amplifying your message far beyond anything possible using 'paid-for' media alone. (via Warc)" Bridget Angear |
| "No matter what the source, information is only powerful if students know what to do with it. As students are inundated with media messages, the challenge is not to amass more information, but to access, organize, and evaluate useful information from a variety of print and electronic sources. (via Media Literacy and Quotes)" Kathleen Tyner |
| "Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. (via Warc)" Winston Churchill |
| "If advertising has no effect, then why should people worry about us banning it? The reason why they are worried so much is because it does have an effect and the effect is to reduce consumption. (via Media@SAfm)" Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi - Health Minister |
| "We had similar sentiments that there must be freedom of choice, but here we are actually saying that we must give freedom to people to hurt themselves, hurt society and create a burden for society, that is the freedom they are asking for. (via Media@SAfm)" Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi - Health Minister |
| "The majority of South Africans choose not to drink, even though they exposed to the same type of advertisement (via Media@SAfm)" Adrian Botha - Director: Industry Association for Alcohol Use |
| "It is a great relief for us that we own the exclusive rights without anyone contesting them. (via Media@SAfm)" Kirsten Nematandani |
| "I am mystified by the things Jimmy Manyi is saying and doing because he seems out of step with his job and task. (via Media@SAfm)" Professor Anton Harber |
| "When your life is not in your hands, there is nothing you can do, when they took my recorder and my phone and crash it, I knew I was next. (via Media@SAfm)" Fatima Noor, CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the Year |
| "Desk editor: 'The suspect is a 32-year-old and lives at home? Red flag.' Producer: 'Hmm, he probably works in news.' (via Twitter)" OHnewsroom |
| "I have to stop myself from writing tweets in headline style. (via Twitter)" JournalistsLike |
| "Managing Editor: 'It's such a madhouse around here that sometimes I think I'm going sane.' (via Overheard in the Newsroom)" OHnewsroom |
| "Maybe it's the journalist in me, but I love hearing news before anyone else. (via Twitter)" JournalistsLike |
| "Reporter: 'If you want to lose some weight this summer, work in a newsroom. Seriously, you'll never have time to eat.' (via Overheard in the Newsroom)" OHnewsroom |
| "An actor's career is over when the people boo. A reporter's career is over when the people stop booing. (via Twitter)" JournalistsLike |
| "Typing in all capital letters is perceived to be shouting, so only do it when addressing foreigners or the elderly. (via Twitter)" FakeAPStylebook |
| "Reporter 1: 'I have an ethical dilemma.' Reporter 2: 'Whichever choice is the least fun is the right one.' (via Twitter)" OHnewsroom |
