During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to...

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.

I did a show called 'Profit' a while back, and I based some of the work on some people that were in office at the time.

I'm not as careful as I appear, which is why I choose not to do social media. It's really because I don't trust myself. I'm also very easily influenced by my feelings and will impulsively act on my...

I know if I do something wrong, it's going to be all over the news.

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

I feel very comfortable about being fair to Trump. I think I've been very fair to him.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

Education was central to reporting.

Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.

He had learned a lesson about propaganda in politics and mused wearily that "no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false." If a charge was made often...

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

Bad news always travels faster than good.

Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.

...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one...

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum-even encourage the more critical and...

Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little...

Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering...

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another,...

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in...