Quotes About Media

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to say things.

Given how majestically slim she always was, it's a little odd to admit that I can remember bellowing that Whitney Houston was The Heavyweight Champion of the World! on the MTV News floor back in the '90s.

If you walk into any magazine store, I guarantee that nine out of 10 covers will feature white, blonde, blue-eyed, slim women because that's still the ideal of beauty. When a black or Asian figure shows up in a fashion magazine, she's the exception, not the rule.

I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don't go to a restaurant and let slip I'm leaving by the back door, like some celebrities.

These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio.

TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.

Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.

When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I email once in a blue moon, as I'm a rather slow typist and prefer to pick up the phone and hear a voice.

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

I don't know if it's a consequence of 'Black Mirror,' but I am slowly becoming more and more technophobic.

People always sit there and talk about 'Talking Smack.' They always bring up the incident of 'Talking Smack.' What did I do on there that was so terrible?

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.

Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.