Don Lemon Quotes

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

I think that the media spends far too much time [on personalities].

We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

I'm sure if I have plans, the Press will inform me.

If you say a more outrageous thing than everyone else that day, you're going to get the headlines.

Once one news organization goes with it, it's tough to keep the lid on [a rumor].

I'd have to set my hair on fire to get on the news.

Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …

…Democrats are complaining that they can’t get their message out … because Donald Trump has blotted out the media sun. … The eclipse won’t end. The media has turned the Trump presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption—their self-absorption in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a political Macy’s parade of modern media’s own creation. They could let go of the ropes. But they won’t.

The Harding/Kerrigan saga was one of the first feeding-frenzy stories that would forever change news coverage.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

I feel like I'm in a horror film. Everywhere I turn, there's a journalist.

As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson case. But this case is different. The verdict is far more shocking. Why? Because Casey Anthony was no celebrity.

If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.

I don't get bothered by fans.

Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth a response; it calls forth the desire for a bigger scandal.