Media Trends Quotes

People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing. I don't even talk about it on stage, because it would take too long to explain.

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.

I watch 'Electronic Boy' faithfully every week - not because I like the show but because I'm interested in where the smartest T.V. producers and directors are going, what direction they are headed in.

I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off.

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we're just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people.

Reality TV started becoming big when I was in college, around 2002. I remember everyone kept saying, 'Man, you guys should do reality.' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'

Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.