Media Complexity Quotes

Television is not an easy medium, as keeping the audience glued to the TV screens day after day is something which requires a lot of effort.

Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character and quality and to the different media and so on, so a generalization is very difficult.

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.

The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email.

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly.