Quotes About Media

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.

Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.

But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.