Quotes about Media

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

Usually, the interest in the personal lives of celebrities is mainly for gossip.

I may have been on the cover of People and gone on 'David Letterman' and 'Arsenio Hall' because they had young audiences I wanted to talk to. But at the same time, I always did serious books or taught seminars.

We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

Suspense in news is torture.

I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry - frankly, just life - it has made life seem much different than it really is.