Quotes About Media

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

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.

In 1967, my mother - then Francie Weinman - graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.

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.

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 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.

You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.

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

Every television show you go on is a choice.

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

I would love to host a television show.

I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.