Quotes About Media

I challenge you to go and turn on the other cable networks to find a face like mine in primetime.

There has been an attempt to pull in a more cable mentality to the big networks - from NBC hiring Scott Sassa from TNT, to FOX hiring Herzog from Comedy Central.

The funny thing is, I look at these magazines that make me so insecure and neurotic, but I'm in them!

I think the idea of journalists being neutral is very important.

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education, and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.

We do live in this age of new media.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

I like marrying the concept of music with new media art forms.

I love podcasts! I wish I had my own, although I think there are already too many podcasts, so I don't know how I would create a new one.

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

When you go back to 'Friends,' and you look at that as New York, there's no black people. That's not real. You're in New York City, and there's no black people at all. That's a little funny.

During the time I was Miss America, I had come to New York City because I had decided I wanted to try to get into television.

I read the 'New York Times' every day and I would do that even if I didn't need to do it for my job!

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.