Michael Wilbon Quotes

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

Consumers are increasingly programming their own entertainment and content experiences.

It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?

I'm speaking out against social media bias.

The difference between television, films and the web is that unlike the former, the latter is not appointment viewing. You decide the time you want to watch and how much you want to watch. The web is for the viewer.

The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes. I don't think they are the enemy of the BBC or the other way round. It's not a war; these things can coexist. We can have Amazon and Netflix and the BBC and BT Sport, and people can make choices. That's what modern life is all about.

The FCC, under my leadership, will stand for the First Amendment.

I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don't want to hear the other side.

A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

We have more information than ever before, and it is harder to avoid actually seeing what the other side is saying. Yes, we in Business insider focus on publications that we feel speak to us, but that is the same way it was 20 or 100 years ago. In the US, two million people have subscribed to the New York Times and many more millions think it is a terrible, liberal paper they would never read. We can choose to put ourselves in a bubble of only people who agree with us, but in the digital world there are many more ways of saying "Hey, here is something you might want to consider".

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

We live in media, as fish live in water.

Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help.

Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.

Do not read the newspapers.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.