“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Media
Alfred Hitchcock on Media
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” Continue reading
Bill Cosby on Advertising
“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.” Continue reading
Elbert Hubbard on Journalism
“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.” Continue reading
Lyndon B. Johnson on Politics
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read ‘President Can’t Swim’.” Continue reading
Kate Reid on Acting
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.” Continue reading
Gertrude Stein on Information
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Continue reading
Edith Sitwell on Truth
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.” Continue reading
Hodding Carter on Television
“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” Continue reading
John Wanamaker on Advertising
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Continue reading
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