The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.
Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll numbers are so high because they put him on every program, spewing his crazy ideas.
I think, with any topical show, it's very easy to find yourself caught up in the news cycle, and working at 'The Daily Show,' I definitely found myself in that, where we would be talking about the last 24 hours.
I've never really figured out why the media covers the media, you know?
Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.
The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.
Once you get off the network news train, it's hard to get back on.
Content begets content.
a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.
The Fox-Trump feedback loop is unlike anything we've seen in media before.
The news can by very cyclical. The same issues are coming up over and over and over again.
