Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.
I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.
I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.
For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.
I don't watch ESPN, don't listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.
I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.
We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
What a lot of people don't realise about me is that I have no idea what's going on in the media. I don't pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don't enter into it at all on any level.
I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'
I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
I spend a lot of time with my family. I go to bed early, don't watch too much television, don't read everything that's written about me whether positive or negative.
What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?
What people think of me doesn't affect me. As bizarre as it sounds, I don't have a Google alert on my phone; I don't read newspapers, and I don't watch television. If something important happens, I will get to know about it.
I haven't watched telly for years.
I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
I meet celebrities all the time, but I have no idea who they are because I don't watch television.
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
Part of the failure of the corporate media is that they don't dig out stories anymore. They are looking down from the top floors. Media work used to be something that was down on the ground level. Now they are looking out of the windows in the top suites, and they don't know what's going on out there. And then there are the corporate owners who don't want this stuff reported because if one town learns that the next town has defeated Wal-Mart or stopped sweatshop goods, then other towns are going to want to do the same thing.
Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.
I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.
It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show in decades.
I want to be influenced by the world not TV or film.
I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.
