Dan Gilroy Quotes

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.

For me, growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, Huell Howser was the most consistently watchable entertainer on TV. I was more of a radio geek as a teenager, but Huell I watched whenever I got the chance. A lot of us did.

If you're watching cable news, you are going to get a distorted picture.

Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.