Media Decline Quotes

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

I think the news people no longer have any idea of what covering the news is.

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

The sense that I get is that every election cycle, the mainstream press devolves more and more.

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

CNN is destroying their franchise. They've become either the trial network or the story network.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

Old-school viewers remain adamant that 'The Real World' has deteriorated, as if the original enterprise were some pristine experiment that got sullied as the conditions in the lab got sloppier.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

There is no news industry.

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

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

A lot more than objectivity has gone missing in our reporting; intelligence has gone missing. The people in charge of the nation’s newsrooms, I continue to believe, are not as deeply, profoundly stupid as so much of what they put on their homepages, increasingly in positions calculated to attract clicks. Then I realize: The internet waits for no man. Neither does happy hour. Thinking and writing carefully require time and effort. The press hasn’t so much abandoned standards of objectivity; it has abandoned standards of effort under a digital imperative that not only favors low-intelligence “hot takes,” but makes them the calling card of what used to be a “news” industry.

I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.