media focus Quotes

Actually, you have to spend a lot of time on TV. So I have taken a break from TV and shifted my focus in the movies.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

I think that the media spends far too much time [on personalities].

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

Therefore, the substance of [Donald] Trump policies never got covered, because it wasn't what interested the media.

The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.

The press would rather cover a chanting demonstrator than cover the Speaker of the House.

Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.

I've always had a fascination with the technical and small-scale aspects of life - the national media seem to have more interest in the sweeping political views.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

The sports pages record man’s accomplishments. The front pages record his failures.

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

The media loves to spend a lot of time talking about itself and do a lot of navel-gazing, which the general public isn't quite that interested in. They aren't really particularly concerned with whether our feelings are hurt or the things that we complain about. They have their own lives and their own jobs that are difficult as well. I think where the media has gotten itself in trouble is the sense that they're much more interested in things like parsing words and getting into fights about little minutia, as opposed to stepping back and seeing what the big picture is.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.