Quotes About Media

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.

Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

Not even the Washington Post understands humanity.

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it's really fun to do and Oprah's on it.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.