Susan Rice Quotes

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

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

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

… printed newspapers on actual paper may be a luxury item. It’s sort of like … people still have horses, but it’s not their primary way of commuting to the office.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

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

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

I think cable television is wobbling and I think people aren't going to forget what happened - because you had a situation where one of the candidates was hated, not just disagreed with, hated. You can't have that. If you hate somebody, I've got to step aside or I need tell the audience look, I hate this person. You know I'm not going to give you an objective view of them. But they didn't do that about Donald Trump.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.

I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.

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

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.