Drew Curtis Quotes

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news. But I think it reflects a real desire for facts, real news and reporting.

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

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

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

For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.

The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.

Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

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.'

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value.

If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

I can stand here today, look you in the face, and say I'm proud of the efforts of 'ABC News.' I respect 'ABC News.' And I believe they work very hard to present news in an extremely fair way.