Howard Stringer Quotes

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

I go on all the channels, mostly CNN and MSNBC. I have gone on Fox every couple of months.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

I'm liberal, but I watch the three majors. Obviously I watch MSNBC, also CNN and Fox, which is what I would call ridiculously to the right.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don't have much experience who haven't covered campaigns, the result is sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody's time.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap—and they know it

We try and slow down the news.

CNN is destroying their franchise. They've become either the trial network or the story network.

I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.

I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.

Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan "You Can Depend on CNN". Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?

A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.

I watch news from the minute I wake up till 11. Then I switch to Charlie Rose. Fox News all the way.

I get ratings but I don't do interviews for those people anymore. I don't watch CNN anymore. I don't do interviews with CNN anymore because its not worth it. It's very biased against me.

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.