Quotes About Media

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media.

Isn't it interesting that we place deadbolt locks on our doors to keep evil influences out and then allow and even invite evil influences into our home through television.

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S.

I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.

On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.