Quotes About Media

I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the telly.

I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly - that's just life on camera.

When I'm on telly, I feel a bit trussed up and I hate make-up and it does put weight on you and I look and see my chins.

I don't do that much telly because I want quality, not quantity - you've got to be happy with what you're putting out.

People are brutal. They forget that people on telly are actually real people.

I always wanted to get on the telly. Then see when I did, and there was talk about doing more online, Comedy Labs or iPlayer, I was: 'Naw, naw, naw, I want to be On The Telly that sits in the living room and folk watch it together.

I love telly so much and I come from a telly background, I used to work in production.

I have never had a problem with not being able to do anything just because I am on telly every day.

You have more freedom on radio. When people used to tell me they preferred radio to TV, I always thought they were making the best of things because they couldn't get any telly work, but now I understand, sort of.

I've had my own comedy series on telly and I know the truth about politics.

I don't see any difference in Hindi and Telugu television.

Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a settled question: 95 percent of scientists believe this is happening with 100 percent confidence temperatures are rising.

TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.

News in not what happened but a story about what happened.

O. J. Simpson

Vanpelt was a hack. More often than not, she chose the low-hanging fruit, because she was lazy, not interested in doing any real work to uncover facts. She sought out the sensational stories that would get her face front and center on the six and eleven o'clock newscasts.

Mills, who had become a nightly fixture on CNN, Fox

del distrito de Tofah en Gaza en 1993, el canal de noticias CNN mostró una cinta con imágenes de unos jóvenes lanzando piedras a las tropas israelíes. No obstante, el comentario de la CNN decía que aquellos jóvenes «protestaban por el proceso de paz».

Dado que la prensa y las cadenas de televisión estadounidenses tampoco querían ser tildadas de «enemigos de la paz», en Occidente muchas todavía no estaban al corriente de la desastrosa desintegración que estaba sufriendo el acuerdo de «paz» de Arafat con Israel, ni sabían por qué los palestinos culpaban a Israel de la matanza de Hebrón.

Hemos cerrado Al Watan por el reportaje sobre el presidente —me comunicó—. El redactor fue detenido por otra cosa… sí, está detenido.» Lo están interrogando. También hemos cerrado Al Istiqlal. Han estado implicados en un delito de desinformación.»

Journalism can be lethal

And then, at last, the frenzy wore itself into staleness, and even the journalist had nothing left to say, but that too much had been said already.