Quotes About Media

It's difficult in the media to talk about a complex issue when you don't have a lot of time without being general.

It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support.

Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.

To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.

Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

I don't think what you hear on talk radio is representative of America.

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

Liberal talk on the radio doesn't perform well because it is not a sequestered to a niche - it's everywhere in the media universe. Conservative talk radio, on the other hand, performs well because the radio is the only place, besides Fox News, that people can go for right-sphere opinions.

I think talk radio belongs to conservatives now after the last 20, 30 years of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, my colleagues at Salem, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Larry Elder.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

As the media landscape continues to evolve, 'Conan' will continue to lead the evolution of what a talk show will be in the digital age.