Dave Barry Quotes

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

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

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

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.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

The American might be defined as a newspaper-reading animal.

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

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

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.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

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.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.