Julius Schwartz Quotes

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

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

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and 'Meet the Press,' all that fun, exciting stuff.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

Every newspaper lives by appealing to a particular public. It can only go ahead of its times if it carries its public with it. Success in journalism depends on understanding the public.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

I don't read it. I view it like the Daily Worker.

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

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

We try and slow down the news.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

I would gather information and have to give it to somebody else and not get the byline.

I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.

My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.