Campbell Brown Quotes

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.

Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.

People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.

I'm definitely scared about newspapers. The problem is nobody wants to catch a falling knife, and nobody knows where things will stabilise. The value of newspapers has dropped significantly. I think we still have more pain to be felt.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

I have had a lot of cool offers to move into traditional media, but I'm not completely sold I have to do that.

I like how TV used to be - 'Boys from the Blackstuff' and 'Play for Today', instead of 'Stars in Your Eyes' and 'Celebrity Come Cook With Me' or whatever. I hate all that stuff.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

Newspapers for centuries enjoyed a virtual monopoly… Those days are gone. The trends are against us.

The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.