Quotes About Media

When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they're designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers.

We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.

I love that we've chipped away at the celluloid closet and have wonderful programs that feature gay and lesbian characters in really rich, fully developed ways.

There've been a lot of TV programs on me in Russia.

I've been famous for years through my entertainment programs, through my show business activities and my business.

If you're in the rural South, you don't get Korean TV, unless you can find a Korean grocery guy who has been taping Korean programs and then offering them.

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.

Film is a natural progression for Saban Capital Group with existing interests already in television, media and brands.

Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened.

In 2003 and again in 2010, I was fired from my job as editor-in-chief of a 'progressive' paper, Al-Watan. During the years in between, I served as media adviser to Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to Britain and then the United States.

A progressive digital ad revenue tax would also make sure that dominant social media platforms bear the brunt of the tax.

Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenues for people to make their feelings known, which is good.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

When Ellen came out on national television, it was the first time I'd ever seen an LGBT woman represented in such a prominent way.

I've always been very passionate about trying to have Asian-Americans or Asian faces be more prominent in mainstream media.

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

You know, this entire industry, and its not just this industry, it's most people in media, come from one point of view. One. And I am making you a promise on that one. And there is one of me, and they can't stand that there is one dissenting voice. They can only indict my motives.

I've had my fill of media sensationalism and false promises.