Quotes About Engagement

I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?

The interesting thing about the top 200 to 300 tweeters - a lot of them are musicians, actors, etc. LeBron James, etc. I think Lady Gaga is number one. But! They're not all celebrities. There's 'CNN Breaking News.' And the 'New York Times.' And other brands like Gary Vaynerchuk, who aren't really that known outside that world.

It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved.

Especially as newcomers, it's really important to have the Internet, where people can talk about you and listen to your music.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

If I didn't understand a cartoon in a newspaper, I'd just turn the page.

For some reason most Indians seem to think that it is the job of the media to fight corruption and their own role is restricted to sighing over their newspaper, or debates on the local train as they commute to work.

I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.

The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.'

I don't read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you.

It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.

We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.

To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.

When you're a co-host, you've got to consider what the other person is saying and take the next step and get the laugh or get to the end of the story. You've got to make it happen and then move on to the next story.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it, and go on to the next thing.