Quotes About Media

People essentially like local news better than network news.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.

I just get my news from the Internet.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

Every cable news channel was a very big business success before Donald Trump started lying about Barack Obama's birth certificate. And they were all making more money than they knew what to do with then and more money than Donald Trump has ever seen in his life.

If I'm going to turn on the television, it's going to be the Fox News channel.

If I do commentary, write articles, or am an expert on a news channel, I can still earn money.

We would like to be the third-most-watched news channel in the U.K.