Media Quality Quotes

When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

I think the news people no longer have any idea of what covering the news is.

Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

In digital, you can maintain the quality.

The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

American television really is pathetic.

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

Our press is the most disgusting in the world.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.

It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV - not a cheap imitation of it.

Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.