Quotes About Media

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

As she would later admit, she 'occasionally set up a paparazzi photo or let info slip out to the press'.135

In television, everything is possible and nothing is sure.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

The pressure of TV can force people to do odd things.

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

I think the 'New York Times' would rather be offended than dead.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

Some men's magazines are just downright offensive.

Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.

We are in a diversity age. I talk about the lack of diversity for black Americans, but what about the Asian Americans? You don't see them very often. They have a show called 'Fresh off the Boat.' No one is talking about that show. I saw it, and I found that show completely offensive, but I'm not Asian American.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

I get small screen offers all the time, specially for hosting shows.

There is a small industry out there called media training. It offers instruction on how to 'control a narrative,' to use that awful term. Most politicians are clients.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.