E. B. White Quotes

I think of all media, television is the most powerful when it comes to selling books, because when you have a feature film, yeah, there's a rush. But then after that month is over and the movie goes out of release, that's it.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

You can get on television all the time if you have the money to buy the time.

There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.

We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.

You could place one product in a first-run telecast, a second product what that program is rerun, and a third product when the show goes into syndication, and another product when it goes on cable.

The press lives on disaster.

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.

News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.

I'm pretty sure that Murdoch loathes the Internet

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

Seems like every other day there's somebody on the news, somebody gets killed or does something crazy and all the neighbors and everybody says, "I can't believe he did that, I can't believe she did that."

Sarah Palin is joining Fox News. The new slogan is 'hair and unbalanced.'

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

There's a commercial break coming and I'm very excited about it and you know why? Because that's what keeps daddy in suits.

The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.