Quotes About Media

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

A report published by Britain's Mental Health Foundation in 2009 concluded that a "culture of fear"—marked by a shaky economy and hyperbolic threat-mongering by politicians and the media—had produced "record levels of anxiety" in Great Britain.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

A populace that is chloroformed day and night by TV stations like Fox News could do with inoculation by poetry. Obviously, poetry can't be administered like an injection, but it does constitute a boost to the capacity for discrimination and resistance.

Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

I wouldn't know all that I do about history, if I spent my time watching cartoons and other TV shows.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.