In Media
- The American band Misfits wrote a song entitled "We are 138"
- The crew name of a group of graffiti artists originating in Somerville, MA in the 1990s.
One Thirty Eight was at one time focused on creating legal walls for their art in the City of Somerville by way of getting permission from the owners of the property. In response to this, the City of Somerville issued a law that banned graffiti style art of any kind whatsoever. If the owner of the property would not remove the art themselves, the city would remove it and fine the owner. One Thirty Eight would later be credited with the public art style known as graffilthy.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
“Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why—but the editorialists forget it—terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)