Quotes About Media

One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

For me, I'm not that interested in reading newspapers, for example, so the Labour Live event is a really good way for me to engage in party politics and hear speeches and have discussions.

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

I'm astonished at the speed of social media as it can get things done really fast.

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.

I was lucky to spend so long on 'Blue Peter' and 'Newsround' and if you are a bit giddy, like I am, a bit daft, like I am, and you are the kind of person who makes lots of public mistakes, like I do, then it's sometimes hard for people to take me seriously.

Inside the noisy and chaotic modern information sphere, the message doesn't matter nearly as much as the messenger.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

The media loves negative spin.

The media continues to spin the State of Israel and Jews as war-mongering, evil people, which we are not.

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin' news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it.

Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to 'Cardiac Arrest,' but there was no political agenda to what I was doing.