Ed O'Brien Quotes

I don't watch the media that much.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.

I never read tabloids, I never buy books or go on Perez Hilton, and I never ever watch the news.

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

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.

I don't read the press that much.

I don't read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

Television is a young person's medium.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

I don't read the papers or watch TV.

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.