Traditional Media Quotes

This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

While most of the world's information is beginning to be stored electronically, most of the world's expertise still resides in books.

I don't want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were incredibly dominant. That time has passed.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

CNN is not a television network that has a website. CNN is a full-fledged media company.

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

I am going to pick on 'Huffington Post.' A lot of its content is great. They are doing a lot of original content now, but historically, a lot of what they did was aggregation. Newspapers don't want to become that, and yet 'Huffington Post' is incredibly popular. It's incredibly successful.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

When I was little, there were three channels.

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.