Quotes About Media

Police use of deadly force is rare in America. You wouldn't know that by listening to some of the blowhards out there: the newspaper, the mainstream media, the race hustlers. They make it seem like this stuff happens several times a day. It's rare.

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

I think being honest on TV is pretty rare. So if I can be that, I would like to be.

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

The errors in media polling rarely benefit a Republican.

All I'm saying is that I rarely find myself pointing to Sean Penn's love life thinking, 'I want to be like that.'

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

One of the things I wanted to do in 'The Death of Truth' was explore some of the larger social and political dynamics that fueled the rise of Trump and brought America to the point where a third of the country will casually shrug off hard facts about everything from the size of inaugural crowds to the crime rate among immigrants.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.

I mean, you make a movie with Sarah Palin in it, you get great ratings. That's easy. I know how to get ratings: get Sarah Palin.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.