Quotes About Media

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.