Rupert Murdoch Quotes

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

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.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

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

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

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.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Printing made us all readers. Xeroxing made us all publishers. Television made us all viewers. Digitization makes us all broadcasters.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

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

As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

The world has changed - we can all get news 24/7 from any device, any outlet... but we want to tell different stories in different ways, and add to the news.

There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

I don't watch TV. I don't listen to radio.

I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.