Quotes About Media

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

Digiphrenia"—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

Now is a time where social media allows people to be heard on a different level. Everyone is using their voice.

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."

Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.