Quotes About Media

News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

The smaller newspapers probably won't have any critics at all. Maybe that's not such a bad thing because there's a certain level of seriousness that you can't get with a small newspaper for critics.

The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.

A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.

If Flavor Flav was any smaller and darker, Brad and Angelina would try to adopt him.

If you're going to be a media brand and not just a linear television brand, then you have to make sure you're speaking to all women and all interests, so it may mean that you end up smaller audiences serving individual pieces of content, but the aggregate is what's important and what we're paying attention to.

Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.

I'm smart enough to know, 'Don't try and make any headlines.'

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

Anybody with a good smart phone can shoot and edit a film. Distributing it is the hard part.

Most smart companies should make themselves media companies. That means they put out their own information.

I want to make smart television.

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

You're smarter than TV. So what?

I'm not saying Michael Moore's smarter than Sean Hannity, but Michael Moore is better at running interviews than Hannity, even though Hannity's running the interview!

The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.

There were some miles-better bands than us. We were conscious that we weren't the best or the smartest, but we certainly knew how to work the press.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.