Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.