Tom Bateman Quotes

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.

Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

There's so many shows, whether it's 'Last Week Tonight' or 'The Daily Show' or 'Full Frontal' or 'Late Night With Seth Meyers,' that are really doing great stuff talking about what's going on in the world and what's going on with the president, and those stories that everyone winds up talking about, whether on social media or in their jobs.

I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens.

I don't consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However, I do consider myself to have a bit of a cartoonist character. I definitely am analyzing and satirizing pop culture and politics and whatever strikes my fancy.

On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.

With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape with their ability to spend time with their stories and subjects.

Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by it.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.