Media Skills Quotes

There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.

Reporting makes you a better anchor and vice versa.

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

I'm not a good interviewer.

As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

I think that casting shows are pretty good at teaching someone how to present themselves and how to handle the media.

Television is a completely 1,000 percent different skill set than being on stage.

I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork. I forgot to mention that my course of study at the Art Institute is BSC in Media Arts and Animation.

If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television.