Quotes About Media

You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.

Ever since I managed with guaranteed contracts and all the media, you know, you can get distracted by fame and fortune. Your values can get distorted. And the way you break through is, you just keep it personal and keep it simple and basic.

I sometimes buy the Daily Mail and hide it in my Guardian.

You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't know.'

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

I feel extremely guilty that I've had to put team-mates through extra media questions.

When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

HD is not forgiving. Once you see your face for the first time in a movie cinema, you run straight to the gym.

Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.

I may have been on the cover of People and gone on 'David Letterman' and 'Arsenio Hall' because they had young audiences I wanted to talk to. But at the same time, I always did serious books or taught seminars.

The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to the child.