Quotes About Media

It's an honor to be named Rookie of the Year by the media.

The media named me Zeenie Babs, long long ago. I was even called Babushka.

Whenever any actress works with an actor again, more than once, people start linking their names.

I have got closer to some of the guys through Twitter. I don't need to name names but I have found I have more of a connection with some players than I did before - not to say that I wasn't friends with them anyway but just that I'm better friends with them now.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, 'Reggie has a massive ego; he's narcissistic, he's cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,' because that's what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn't let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.

Conservatives are either stupid or brilliant. Pick a narrative, leftist MSM. You can't have it both ways.

We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of that many.

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

The narrative often from Democrats and the media is that Republicans don't think the Russians have meddled in our election. They did.

There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman.

Trump called me a 'nasty guy' on the phone, and some of his surrogates called me 'obsessed' and biased on TV.

I am interviewed a lot about 'Friends' and people always want me to say nasty things or 'what was this person like.' And I can't because they were all wonderful.

If you're part of a show that is watched by millions of millions of people, of course there are going to be nasty comments. You can't take them personally.

One thing I know, and any female presenters will know this, is don't reveal any body part or bend over because freaks will freeze-frame it and put it on their nasty messageboards.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

It turns out that those who truly hate us for our freedoms are not the array of dehumanized enemies cooked up by the war machine—the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians, or even the Taliban, al Qaeda, and ISIS. They are the financiers, bankers, politicians, public intellectuals and pundits, lawyers, journalists, and businesspeople cultivated in the elite universities and business schools who sold us the utopian dream of corporate capitalism and globalization.

Daniel Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

The popularization of culture often ends in its total degradation.

Capturing media attention and being credible are distinct phenomena.

I thought for a moment that I had entered Dante's inferno, as flashbulbs exploded from all directions and newsreel cameras whirred. A crowd of three hundred shoving reporters, newsreel and still photographers had converged, all jockeying for position and camera angles. I learned later it was the largest assemblage of press representatives in the history of the airport.

Unable to reach me and gather the real facts, rival newspapers proceeded to enlarge on the slightest item to keep the Jorgensen story moving before the public. If I sneezed, it was duly reported as an event.

When that raffish assortment arrived at the New York airport, a reporter discovered that one of the shipping cartons was clearly imprinted with the words Petal Soft Toilet Tissue, and he proceeded to publish my guilty secret. It's obvious now, I think, that I've always traveled in the grand manner.