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Rival media
The word media is plural for mediocre.
Rene Saguisas, 1987
TV and Radio
Broadcasters are storytellers, newspapers are fact-gatherers
and organizers of information and news magazines are kind of a
hybrid of both.
Everette E Dennis
Executive director, Gannet
Center for Media Studies
1985
The day of the printed word is far from ended. Swift as is
the delivery of the radio bulletin, graphic as is television's
eyewitness picture, the task of adding meaning and clarity remains
urgent. People cannot and need not absorb meanings at the speed
of light.
Erwin Canham
Editor, 'Christian Science Monitor'
1958
The New Media
The classified ads and the stock market quotations are the
bedrock of the press. Should an alternative source of easy access
to such diverse daily information be found, the press will fold.
Marshall McLuhan
Through the use of chat rooms, any person with a phone line
can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than
it could from any soapbox. Through the use of Web pages, mail
exploders, and newsgroups, the same individual can become a pamphleteer.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
In the ruling striking down the
Communications Decency Act (1997)