Jennifer Saunders Quotes

An increase in press coverage of police shootings isn’t the same thing as an increase in police shootings.

It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

When killings of black by policeman happen, there's the victim, there's the family, there are the police, there are the politicians, and there is the community. Everybody is affected. Everybody has a point of view. We really wanted to dig into that and get to know all these different people that are changed by it.

Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?

Television wasn't prestigious.

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

I think the whole spoiler thing has taken over the media.

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.

As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.