Quotes about Media
The rise of Donald Trump established a new ground zero for liberal media, requiring no pretence of balance - better yet, with a kind of political brain haemorrhage, everybody seemed to have lost the ability to be balanced.
- Michael Wolff
I haven't had my teeth fixed, I haven't had a hair transplant. I haven't had a skin peel, tummy tuck. I've done literally nothing.
- Ricky Gervais
What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.
- Holly Hunter
Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.
- Marianne Williamson
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When I moved to New York I started to do a lot of TV commercials. It just kind of naturally evolved from still photography to commercials.
- Beth Ostrosky Stern
I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'
- Mike Huckabee
When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.
- James Milner
I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.
- Lauren Bacall
some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.
- Toni Morrison
back in the seventies, when women began to straddle chairs and dance crotch out on television, when all the magazines started featuring behinds and inner thighs as though that's all there is to a woman, well, I shut up altogether.
- Toni Morrison
There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press.
- Toni Morrison