Media Classification Quotes

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

Is the opposite of light entertainment meant to be dark and heavy?

I wouldn't classify television as "cool," because to me anything that involves the reader's consciousness to drive and carry a story is an "active" medium, and anything that sort of just pours into the eyeballs and ears is the opposite.

One of the anomalies of digital journalism is a lack of clarity between high and low. That's the historic distinction in publishing, mass from class, the vulgar from the refined, tabloid from broadsheet, the penny press from papers costing a nickel.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

I am an actor. It's very unfair when people categorise and term me as a television actor or film actor.

If we should pass on whether or not a film is pornographic, we should take a look at it.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal.

I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.