Quotes About Media

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

I've got a massive VHS collection in my apartment. Some people think that it's not a good thing, but I find comfort in it.

The good thing about radio is that it's the kind of career that really is a career with longevity. It's something you can do as long as you want to do.

Any time you can get Glenn Beck crying it's a good thing.

The overexposure of coaches is not a good thing, we appear too much in the media, we just want to work hard.

There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself.

La ragion di Stato non si è mai curata di gettare una graziosa volta fra causa ed effetto. La coscienza del mondo, tanto più pigra a pensare quanto più carica di rimorsi, la stampa dei gruppi momentaneamente al potere e il cervello dei suoi lettori castrato da essa, hanno sempre girato e capito la cosa solo come occorreva a loro

It is easier to get the attention of the press when one says, as Ibsen4 did, that "two and two make five," than to be orthodox and say that two and two make four.

The problem is that when Argentina doesn't play well - and the same is true of Barcelona - the press think it is easy to blame Messi. We have seen time and time again that he wins games on his own when the team is not performing - but the media expect him to always be the hero.

Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

I never watched 'The Godfather' and it seems too late now. The same happened with 'The Sopranos,' 'The Wire' and 'Peaky Blinders.' I don't know if they can be compared but they feel to me like they had a lot of male violence that I'm not massively into.

One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.'

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

Quietly, President Obama has done warrantless wire tapping. And it was hardly covered. I don't know if any of the mainstream press bothered to cover it.

A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service, magazine, news Web site, television, radio or motion picture - for public use. This broad definition covers every form of legitimate journalism.

I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens, we certainly all cheer (and perhaps secretly hope it happens to us). But the fact is, we make media because we don't know what else to do with ourselves. It's how we're wired, so to speak.

A lot of these coaches, they're almost like military leaders, and the media is the enemy. Football coaches are just wired tight.

We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.