Sometimes, Reading My Own Media, The Negativity Can Upset Me, But I Just Deal With Things On A Positive Basis. I Mean, I Have Up To 20,000 People Singing My Words Back To Me On A Nightly Basis - They Share My Hopes And Fears, And They Relate To My Own Life Experiences. Life Can Be Pretty Isolating, But That Connection Is Always Amazing.
The De Facto Censorship Which Leaves So Many Americans Functionally Illiterate About The History Of Us Foreign Affairs May Be All The More Effective Because It Is Not Official, Heavy-handed Or Conspiratorial, But Woven Artlessly Into The Fabric Of Education And Media. No Conspiracy Is Needed.
I Think That All Money Can Do Is To Get Your Message Out. Unfortunately, We Live In A World Where You Have To Use Mass Media To Communicate With The People, And It Just Costs An Awful Lot Of Money.
You Choose Your Own Reality And You - Social Media Then Amplifies Those Conspiracy Theories. So That's Why I Say Social Media Is Itself A Revolutionary Phenomenon.
I Think Conspiracy Theories Have Gotten More And More Close To The Mainstream Because What You've Got Is A Fragmentation Of The Media, Where The Media Becomes Much More Polarized Today, Left And Right.
I Think People Think Their Incomes Have Been Flat Lining For A Long Period Of Time. They Feel That The Next Generation's Opportunities Are Not Going To Be Improvement. So And I Also Think That Social Media Then Allows Insurgent Movements To Gain Scale At Speed.
The Trouble Is Nowadays That Parts Of The Media Operate In A Very Partisan Way. There's No Point In Complaining About It, That's The Way It Is. But Let's Be Clear, A Lot Of It Is Driven By The Views Of A Pretty Small Number Of People, Rather Than A Normal Standard Of Journalism.
I Say The Elite Looks Out Of Touch Because It's Kind Of Saying; Look We'll Manage All This For You. You Know, We Know Best. We'll Sort It All Out For You. And Then Because People Believe That Doesn't Meet Their Case For Change And They Want Real Change, Social Media And The Way The Relationship Between People Can Come Into A Sense Of Belonging Very Quickly, That Then Is Itself A Revolutionary Phenomenon. You See This Around The World.
So Much Of Politics Is About The Daily Grind Of Political Business: The People To See, The Myriad Different Facets Of Government, The Remorseless Agenda Of This Part Of The Media Or That.
The Fear Of Missing Out Means That Today’s Media, More Than Ever Before, Hunts In A Pack. In These Modes It Is Like A Feral Beast, Just Tearing People And Reputations To Bits. But No-one Dares Miss Out.
You Know, The Media And Politicians Are Always Gonna Be In A Bit Of Tension With One Another And Probably Most Of The Time That's Healthy And Indeed Even Creative. But It's Where - It's Really When News Organisations Are Used As Kind Of Instruments Of Politics That It Gets Tricky.
