Quotes About Media

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

Somebody once said that if many people had not read about romantic love and seen it on the screen, they would never look for it themselves. I believe this. And along with it I believe that if many people were not ashamed to be thought deficient in "family feeling" they would never have children.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

There's absolutely no evidence to indicate that. There never is. Homicidal satanic cults are the detective's version of yetis; no one has ever seen one and there is no proof that they exist, but one big blurry footprint and the media turn into a gibbering, foaming pack, so we have to act as though we take the idea at least semi-seriously.

In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side.

Homicidal satanic cults are the detective's version of yetis: no one has ever seen one and there is no proof that they exist, but one big blurry fingerprint and the media turn into a gibbering, foaming pack, so we have to act as though we take the idea at least semi-seriously.

Good morning, this is Dan Rather, with the news. Today, [person] died in an insanely nonhumorous manner

Mummy had then appeared, telling the press that her son needed his daily dose of iron tonic.

There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

But I guess he has a point about how good-looking people are in commercials versus in real life. It's not that they look better than people in real life, but they look good in a different way.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: What is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

When I started 'CNN ' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

In Spain, there's a lot more publicity.

In Spain, when we're successful, we're on the front page of the newspaper. Every newspaper. But when we lose, we're slated, the same as the men. That's the level the game is at.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.