Media
The salt mine helped inspire the Labyrinth scenes in Bolesław Prus' 1895 historical novel, Pharaoh. In 1995, the Preisner's Music, a compilation of film music by the Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner, was recorded by Sinfonia Varsovia in the chapel in the Wieliczka salt mine. The chapel is often referred to as having the best acoustics in Europe. In 2010 it was proposed to UNESCO World Heritage to add Bochnia Salt Mine nearby, to the original inscription.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)
“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)
“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 (1925–1986)