Quotes About Media

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up.

So paid media is when you buy an ad - typically in a presidential campaign that will be in Iowa, New Hampshire, the early states. It costs some money to make the ad, but the greatest cost is in actually placing the ad on TV.

A traditional presidential campaign has a media bus with the candidate's name on it and an itinerary days in advance. Trump has a plane with his name on it (that we aren't invited on) and an itinerary that often mutates daily, along with his talking points.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

Any press is good press.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

The press is the enemy.

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

How drab people are, especially from the press.

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.