Quotes About Media

Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men. All white middleflclass men.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.

I have not been following religiously; the only season I followed on and off is 'Bigg Boss 11.'

Just because two guys are homosexual and happen to be the only two homosexuals on-screen doesn't mean they're going to be like, 'Oh yeah, let's get together!' It doesn't always happen like that.

If I wore a mini-skirt then it would become such a big deal, if I kissed on-screen then it was bold, it was glamorous but if the top actresses did it then no one would even discuss it. So I was like why do I have this sexy, wild and glamorous image?

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

It is so important for young people to see characters with different mental health challenges on-screen.

Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.

One minute you're nobody and the next thing you've got people following you around.

People have been affected by the concept of one minute fame.' This is actually a problem with television. The whole world is getting crazy about coming on television for some reason or the other.

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.

One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.

The greatest hoax of all of the Trump years is that Donald Trump has convinced one-third of the country not to believe not anything but Sean Hannity and Fox and Trump.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

Only a consistent, ongoing, deep experience can make a lasting media brand: one that has a commitment from a core community and the respect of a larger reading public.

Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

When people are making the decision to put a piece of content online, they really do truly want to get it in front of the largest audience.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.