Quotes About Media coverage

I think, with any topical show, it's very easy to find yourself caught up in the news cycle, and working at 'The Daily Show,' I definitely found myself in that, where we would be talking about the last 24 hours.

I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

Un reciente estudio académico descubrió que un desastre recibe un máximo del 18 por ciento de ayuda solidaria por cada artículo de 700 palabras en los periódicos, y un máximo del 13 por ciento por cada 60 segundos de cobertura en los noticiarios de televisión.

Between 1995 and 2005, there were on average 60.3 worldwide shark attacks each year, with a high of 79 and a low of 46. There were on average 5.9 fatalities per year, with a high of 11 and a low of 3. In other words, the headlines during the summer of 2001 might just as easily have read "Shark Attacks About Average This Year." But that probably wouldn't have sold many magazines.

Outrages cannot become public without media coverage.

I believe that journalists have not given enough thought to the way that media coverage can activate our cognitive biases and distort our understanding.

The other two famous accidents, at Three Mile Island in 1979 and Fukushima in 2011, killed no one. Yet vast numbers of people are killed day in, day out by the pollution from burning combustibles and by accidents in mining and transporting them, none of which make headlines.

Plane crashes, in contrast, get lavish coverage, but they kill only about 250 people a year worldwide, making planes about a thousand times safer per passenger mile than cars.

At first, I couldn't understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire's death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate change. Widespread famine, poverty and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: "dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria.

Following the principle that you should know your enemy, the BBC has assiduously recorded the relentless rise of Rupert Murdoch and his assault on the old 'decadent' elites of Britain.

While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor.

Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

I was a reporter for Gannett and the 'N.Y. Daily News' covering Gov. Mario Cuomo's dance with presidential races in both 1988 and 1991.

Network reporters dont go to the field anymore. The local news has been gutted.

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs.

When you're trying to come up with a good approach to reporting on the bleeding edge of where the conversation's moving, you're just leaving a lot of people who aren't on the bleeding edge of that conversation out.

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, 'We hear you're working on a big story,' sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.

I'm reporting on a world at war.