Quotes About Media coverage

Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.

With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl.

I used to deal with high-profile criminal cases that were covered extensively in the media, and one of the things I quickly appreciated was there was a gulf between what really took place in the middle of a case, the impact on victims, the effect on the police and how they solved crimes, and the way it was reported.

When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.

I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.'

I am fine if videos and pictures are clicked when there are legit events and interviews. If I am sitting and having a private dinner with my son, my family or my girlfriend, then I do not want it to be filmed.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

but dozens of reporters and photographers staked out positions in front

The big media blitzes almost exclusively happen for missing children, teen girls, and adult women. White and pretty, preferably. It's rare to see the major networks covering a missing young woman of color as a priority.

People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness.

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

I think it's always really important in broadcast to be able to get different views across and not just go down one route, because that's essentially journalism.

When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

despite all the negative press covfefe

breaking news (n) a news story that is unfolding at the moment that reporters are reporting it

The media only cares about the Yuma 14 because of the large numbers. But this tragedy goes on every day. It never stops. If only one person dies out there, it is exactly the same horror story.

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.