Paul Weyrich Quotes

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Whoever said I hated the media?

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

The main thing about the Globe is there's 700 people all standing right in front of you.

I respect the media, and in return, they respect my privacy.

I never read the good press and never read the bad press. If you believe the good press you're finished. If you believe the bad press, you won't be able to continue.

Reality in America is heavily scripted, very edited, and they have a say in what goes on TV and what doesn't.

Don't trust everything you see on TV.

I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

Bad behaviour on TV is quite nauseating and putting off.

When I have 7,000 people plus at Red Rock just for a show of mine, I think it's wonderful to get that many people to come see you.

It'd be nice to say that American media doesn't hate this country.

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

I really am convinced that what is happening in media today is the result of the birth of conservative media and its rapid growth and ascension. It has destroyed the left's monopoly in media. When they had the monopoly, they could pretend that they were not what they are and get away with it. They could pretend to be objective. You know, the power of a monopoly is not just determining what stories you are going to cover, but what you don't cover is just as powerful.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

There's sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That's where the money is.

Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.