Mark Frost Quotes

It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

I honestly think I'm going to rot my brain with all the news. I'm a news junkie.

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

The phone's never far away. The TV's always on. We are constantly on the news cycle; either watching the news, making the news, talking about the news.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

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.

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 watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is.

I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.

We try and slow down the news.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.

When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

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

You can't just buy the sports section of 'The New York Times.' You take the whole paper.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.