Richard Cohen Quotes

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

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.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die.

Printing made us all readers. Xeroxing made us all publishers. Television made us all viewers. Digitization makes us all broadcasters.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

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

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.