Here is my theory in debunking photographs in magazines. You know, the paparazzi photographs. I want to spend every single night for three months going out with a different famous actress. You know, Halle Berry one night, Salma Hayek the next, and then walk on the beach holding hands with Leonardo DiCaprio. People would still buy the magazines, they’d still buy the pictures, but they would always go, I don’t know if these guys are putting us on or not.
George Clooney | Media, paparazzi
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Tom Wolfe | the media and the artist
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler – Distrust, Media
In the mechanical age now receding, many actions could be taken without too much concern. Slow movements insured that the reactions were delayed for considerable periods of time. Today the action and the reaction occur almost at the same time. We actually live mythically and integrally, as it were, but we continue to think in the old, fragmented space and time patterns of the pre-electrical age.
