Changing Media Quotes

TV and appointment viewing is a thing of the past for the youth.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

When I was growing up, I could tell you everything about the three radio stations in Nashville. My 12- and 14-year-olds can't tell me one radio station here but can tell me three on Sirius.

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore.

It's kind of like, who cares about MTV anymore?

After 'Sea Hawks,' television became very strange for me, I could not relate to the stories that were being shown on TV.

I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

I don't believe, folks, that the media people you see on TV every day from NPR to CBS to ABC to NBC to wherever are ever gonna admit they're irrelevant, and they're not gonna start acting like it, and they're never gonna say, "Gee, you know what? We might have to alter the way we're -" It isn't gonna happen, even if it means the end of them.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Radio isn't just a jukebox for music anymore because you can get music anywhere.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

The way that people are watching TV is changing. The landscape of television is changing. Movies are becoming much more insular. They're like a walled garden, where you know what you're going to see and you expect it. But in the world of TV, because it's episodic, you can explore any area because you have time to do that. You can take risks on the kinds of storytelling that you're doing.

I have not moved out of the comedian's box into the news box. The news box is moving towards me.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.