Media Relationships Quotes

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

Anyone who's in the magazine business thinks about advertisers when they write about something. And anyone who says they don't is a liar.

I have had a lot of cool offers to move into traditional media, but I'm not completely sold I have to do that.

I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

More than any other president, save perhaps John F Kennedy, whose father ran a film studio, and Ronald Reagan, a leading man and governor of California, Trump is on a buddy basis with media moguls, a speed dialer with the heads of studios and media conglomerates.

I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.

You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.

I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.