Quotes About Media

Of all the manifold things there were in all the world—trees, grass, flowers, telephones, radios, elevators—only TV constantly held up a mirror to its own neither solid nor fluid face.

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.

Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.

I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

You've gotta be dynamic in media. That's the only thing that's gonna work.

I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.

Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.