Gerald Levin Quotes

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The media can make or break an administration.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

The media do strange things.

The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

'...all the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

In a bad year in this country, we have 600 people die in airplane crashes. We have 150 die a day in automobiles. Automobile accidents are simply not news. People are not reacting to them, unless you have a phenomenal accident where five or ten people are killed at once, and that will get to be big news. But you've got to concentrate it to produce the news. On the other hand, airplanes, a little bit like nuclear power, have an awesome safety record. And yet, a plane crash where 100 people are killed is news, not just locally but all over the world, quite literally. So the concentration of deaths is very important.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

I run the Daily Express purely for propaganda and for no other purpose.

I apologize for what the media has done.