Hasan Minhaj Quotes

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Newspapers are inherently inefficient and anger a lot of people.

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

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.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.