James Wolcott Quotes

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

Do not read the newspapers.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is.

I don't read all the newspapers.

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

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

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

I honestly think I'm going to rot my brain with all the news. I'm a news junkie.

I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help.

I've gotten to the point I won't even watch the 11 o'clock news. You just walk away from it thinking how bad everything is.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

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

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.

Time off from the news is always something I welcome.

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

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.

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.