The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.
Media is Munchausen by proxy.
We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are i...
When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.
Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will...
A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.
When attempting to turn things around for a particularly disliked or controversial client, Sitrick was fond of saying, We need to find a lead steer! The media, like any group of animals, gallops in a...