Quotes About Television

I'm accused by many people of being the most serious man on television.

Perhaps there's a lot of quality television that's not right for the individual who needs questions answered in each episode, and perhaps reality television may be a better option. With the integrity of HBO and their drive to tell stories, it takes time to arrive at any sort of answers.

Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

I'm very happy, safe, and secure with television industry. I'm not over-ambitious.

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

Most of us will agree that my former medium, television news, has been reduced to tawdry entertainment.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

In an ideal world, judges are not supposed to read or be influenced by media reports. But it is difficult to ignore television news which does not distinguish between reportage and comment.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

I wasn't prepared for the environment I encountered trying to break into television news. In the world of music, where I spent my formative years, we were judged solely on our talent, and gender wasn't a factor.

I really don't know how women in television news do the job. It's a very male-oriented business.

I think figuring out how to do the best job you can, because frankly, no matter what gender you are - in television news - you're all measured by the same thing: which is the news you make or break, and the ratings you are able to deliver. But, how the audience hears you - or how the interviewer does - is also interesting.

I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.

I don't watch television news and, so, whatever I know is from online snippets released by various channels.

If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television.