When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.
I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.
I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.
Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.
I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'
We live in a different media age, a different realm if you will. And whoever is going to aspire to the presidency is going to need to understand what that realm entails and how to navigate it.
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don't know if anyone in the media gets the internet thing and Harvey Norman. I think they have some strange interpretation of it that bears no resemblance to what actually happens.
For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.
Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.
Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.
You sort of assume that everyone knows how television works, but they don't actually, why should they?
You may be the best team in the world, but you can't win all the tournaments. That's what the media does not understand.
The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
