Media Ignorance Quotes

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

The media I’ve had a lot to do with is lazy. we fed them and they ate it everyday.

I've never seen 'Game of Thrones.' I've never seen 'Breaking Bad.' I can't tell you one character outside of Walter White.

The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

I don't think about the media.

The classic story of the Univision network is the mainstream pretends that the network doesn't exist, but then when it comes to sweeps or the ratings, they just have millions and millions more viewers than ABC, Fox, and CBS combined; it's that kind of a success story.

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

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.

When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if I'm staying in a hotel and there's a television in there, I'll go straight to it and watch it as if it's some incredible new invention.

The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'

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.'

So people that read the New York Times are not gonna have the slightest idea what really happened here. So not only are the Drive-Bys themselves a little dense and not curious and uninformed, so are all of their viewers and readers.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

I tend not to read the papers or listen to what the pundits say about me.

I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

To be perfectly honest, I have not watched 'Discovery,' I was ignorant of the fact that it was even coming out. I thought it was another movie coming out.

We became the first political movement in Italy, and the media didn't even realize it.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

I never read tabloids, I never buy books or go on Perez Hilton, and I never ever watch the news.

I don't really try to take notice of all the media. I just try to stay focused on my game.