Andrew Breitbart Quotes

Other reasons for requiring press officers to review interview requests were to have an orderly flow of information out of a sprawling agency and to avoid surprises. This is not about any individual or any issue like global warming. It's about coordination.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

Talking points are a core set of messages an executive or politician utilizes in communicating with stakeholders. It's a term of art for having an outline of your remarks.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.

I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and all these places that allow people to watch shows in chunks.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

The planned use of information targeted at specific audiences using any media available to achieve desired outcomes that primarily benefit the source

Talking to the press, you say things a little differently.

Communication and communication strategy is not just part of the game - it is the game.

Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.

There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people.

Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.

When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.

I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.

The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.