Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.
Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
Donald Trump understands media. He's a television star. And he's connected with America.
It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was called an actor. But Reagan's acting experience, his ability to talk to the camera and not yell to the hall, is what helped make him such a good politician. It is the same with Trump.
I am social media savvy.
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.
I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.
Industry people do know when a PR movement plays out. The issue is that it is an insult to our intelligence when those who are doing the PR thing presume that we are not wiser.
Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media player.
There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.
With my films, I'm targeting the urban multiplexes, the sophisticated media-savvy young crowd.
People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.
A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don't like you start listening.
We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media.
In a career of trying to pry secrets, gossip, specificity and truth out of media executives, Ailes has been the most forthcoming, personal, compelling and honest I've ever dealt with.
People who come through television, if they don't get distracted, they learn how to shoot fast. They don't get shocked. And if they know how to adjust to that and they think outside the box, then they'll be fine.
I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
I'm smart enough to know, 'Don't try and make any headlines.'
