Nick Denton Quotes

Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

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

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

Obviously, I agree with Trump on many of his criticisms of the mainstream media. You can absolutely argue that their failure to report honestly, to get outraged before we could, and to collude with the Clinton campaign directly led to the rise of Trump.

We need to boycott the mainstream media, and we need to go online, and we need to find credible news sources.

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

I can't understand why TV tries to appeal to youth.

Sadly, the mainstream media doesn't like to linger very long on news stories that might present President Trump in a positive light.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.