Reese Schonfeld Quotes

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.

I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

I don't actually go to newsstands anymore.

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

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

I don't watch any television, hardly ever because I'm so busy. I always obviously watch my shows because I blog about it and talk about it, but no, I can watch the news in the morning and that's it.

I don't read the papers or watch TV.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.