Drew Curtis Quotes

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

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

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.

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

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

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

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap—and they know it

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.

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