Media Dependence Quotes

The media I’ve had a lot to do with is lazy. we fed them and they ate it everyday.

They've been irrelevant to me, the print media, because my link does not depend upon the menial minds of the scribblers in Canberra or anywhere else.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

The German journalists still ring me and ask me to come back because without me their newspapers are empty - but I'm happy for that.