Joe Buck Quotes

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

Having done quite a bit with studios and networks, I thought if I'm going to do something new and unformed, it would be fun to do it in a completely new space and place. The space being the Internet and the place being Crackle.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Somebody ought to do on article on you, on your damn profession, your 1st Amendment.

In the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion .... The more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those that are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.

I would do another talk show if it was the way that I wanted to do it. Like, you can't tell me what we're talking about, and I want to hear real stuff.

The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.

The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now.

With all the cable and Internet channels you have available, you have so much opportunity. If you want to say something, you can say it and have people see it.

No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.

I've chosen not to go to Sky or ITV because the programmes I've made at the BBC, I want to carry on making.