#survey

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news. ↗

— Brit Hume

#back #basic #coverage #far #get

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. ↗

— David Letterman

#come #every #four #make #make up

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#commercials #electronic #electronic media #hour #i

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.' ↗

— Scott McClellan

#choose #iraqi #iraqi people #leaders #our

I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#already #done #down #i #lot

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#give #individual #money #people #remove

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress