It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
Acting is how I'll be able to change how Latinos are viewed in media and change how little girls see and talk about themselves.
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.
