“We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.” PeopleKnowsDifferentJobsTurnsLiteratureBitsCompanyHeardInternetNewsAssumingRadioEveningCablesTurn-on Author:Bob Schieffer
“The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.” ThinkingLittlesHelpingProblemCausesClearFocusMissingTelevisionListeningBecomingNewsConceptsAddRadioMythDrivingEaseGet AwayDriversDistractionRelativeThreateningFatigueDistractedInner LifeLureMultitaskingMulti TaskingTelevision News Author:Tom Vanderbilt
“I like the fact that it [social media] is unfiltered. In other words it's not Geraldo of Fox News or Geraldo of WABC Radio, it's Geraldo. And you know it's raw, unedited, what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, or, you know, some mistakes I'm making in real time. And I see that as a way to go out kicking and screaming. People will be hearing from me 'til the bitter end now.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayRealEndsFactsFeelingsSocialMistakeMediaNewsRadioSocial MediaHearingBitterFoxesKickingFox News Author:Geraldo Rivera
“I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what is going on, and to understand the connection between the news media and the instruments of repression in Amerika. All I have is my voice, my spirit and the will to tell the truth. But I sincerely ask, those of you in the Black media, those of you in the progressive media, those of you who believe in true freedom, to publish this statement and to let people know what is happening. We have no voice, so you must be the voice of the voiceless.” PeopleKnowsNeedsFeelsBelieveSpiritAsksBlackVoiceMediaTvsNewsHappeningsConnectionsInstrumentsRadioNewspapersStatementsEducatedTelling The TruthStationsProgressivePublishSincerelyRepressionTrue FreedomRadio StationsNews MediaVoiceless Author:Assata Shakur
“We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.” ThinkingBookIdeasShowsSchoolSportsMorningFashionCollegeMajorsNewsPagesHollywoodConservativeRadioNewspapersMagazinesNo IdeaPropagandaTunesProfessorsFoxesDocumentariesPublic SchoolColumnsSitcomEarly MorningFox NewsAdministratorsHollywood MoviesTalk RadioBombardedFashion MagazinesEtceteraCollege Professors Author:Ann Coulter
“Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when media conglomerates dominate the airwaves, independent media like Citizen Radio is vital to national discourse.” ImportantShowsPoliticalMediaBalanceCitizensNewsIndependentRadioDiscourseJamieAllisonIndependent Media Author:Noam Chomsky
“Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.” LongMomentsFightingSocialVoiceAttentionMediaCarTelevisionMessagesNewsRadioSocial MediaPocketsCyclesDesks Author:Joseph Prince
“I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.” WritingBookEnoughPlayHomePiecesCrazyNew YorkNewsRadioMailCommentaryDiskDaily News Author:Charles Grodin
“Ive been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. Im 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.” YearsPersonsWarStoriesIssuesTelevisionMajorsNewsAdvantageRootsRadioLocalsGrassRecessionsTelevision News Author:George Noory
“A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.” PeopleWayDoeHardEyeParentBoysHard WorkNewsRadioArguingLakesPolishLake Wobegon Author:Garrison Keillor
“I always wanted to be a comedian, even when I was a little kid. I had a funny father who was in the news business, by the way. He was a radio news guy. So the news was always in my house, and funny was always in my house. It was sort of just baked into the DNA that I would do this for a living, but I can remember being less than 10 years old and dreaming about being a comedian.” WayYearsLittlesI CanDreamKidsWantedRememberGuyFatherHouseNewsRadioComedianDnaLittle KidFunny FatherRadio News Author:Bill Maher
“Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think.” PeopleThinkingWorldEnoughRunningHoursNumbersMorningEconomicTelevisionInternetNewsRadioEvery MorningEnough TimeTime To Think Author:Costa-Gavras
“In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.” WorldRightsMovementCollegeAmbitionNewsRadioFocusedCivil RightsAntiwarCivil Rights Movement Author:Bob Edwards
“That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.” ProblemIssuesEventsFiguresNewsRadioInterviewsTailsUrgencyProminent Author:Bob Edwards
“The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.” ThinkingWayWarStoriesFilmGuyCertainChoicesConversationDegreesNewsRadioBackgroundsReactionsPersonal StoriesRadio News Author:Elijah Wood
“Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?” WantDoeBookLastsWeekTelevisionTvsNewsRadioCinema Author:Douglas Adams
“If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.” IfsCareNewsRadioDon't CareI Don't CareAcceptableCommodityRadio News Author:Edward R. Murrow
“In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.” NeedsOrderProgressMiddleProudNewsSingingRadioReports Book:In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961 Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961
“Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.” PeopleIfsGivingChildrenHas BeensNewsCriticsConservativeRadioDecadesFavorsAlternativesLunchFoxesBiasedFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Larry Elder
“Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have been largely disillusioned by the manner in which the record companies have developed music.” ThinkingWellsHas BeensCompanyRecordsMajorsNewsPressesRadioLabelsCynicismGood NewsRecord CompaniesDisillusioned Author:Mick Hucknall
“I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.” ImportantMorningGrowing UpGrowingNewsSingingRadioHearingDancerCoastTap DancersDurban Author:Roselee Goldberg
“For years, right wing outlets like outlets like Fox News and talk radio have been telling their audience day after day that any information coming from outside of conservative media is not to be trusted.” YearsHas BeensAudienceMediaInformationNewsWingsConservativeRadioTrustedFoxesOutletsRight WingFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Chris Hayes
“My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.” KnowsKidsGuyFatherNewsTablesRadioDinnerDnaDinner TableRadio News Author:Bill Maher
“It's probably no coincidence with the internet and social media and the word being able to spread beyond the radio, where fans can go and talk and congregate and trade stories and a band could communicate news very quickly and in a worldwide basis. I'm sure that's helped in bringing in this case us to more of the forefront of peoples attention.” StoriesAbleSocialAttentionCasesFansMediaInternetBandNewsBasesTradeRadioCommunicateSocial MediaSpreadCoincidence Author:John Petrucci
“We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen to the news on the way to school. Or the fact that it's shown on the news, the children can see Gaddafi's face and his glorious Technicolor clothes getting shot off on the news or on the newspaper shelves. In the shelves of the shops where all the sex magazines are consciously put at the top, if they're consciously put at the top, that must mean the violence is all put at the bottom consciously.” IfsWayMeanChildrenFactsSchoolFacesSexViolenceCarClothesNewsShotsAbuseBottomRadioNewspapersMagazinesGloriousShopsMinorsShelvesExposingGaddafi Author:Sinead O'Connor
“The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won.” IfsShouldFactsStoriesStarsPresidentTvsNewsAgreeRadioDebateOld News Author:Joss Whedon
“I don't think that Rush, Hannity, Drudge, Ann Coulter, Fox News, and AM Radio can create enough of a balance to undo the distorted media that we get from the Democrat Media Complex.” ThinkingEnoughMediaBalanceNewsDemocratComplexesRadioFoxesFox News Author:Andrew Breitbart
“There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.” FeelsDoneHelpingNiceNewsRadioTunesDishesDeprived Author:Leonard Cohen
“The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.” WayShouldDoeMediaNew YorkTelevisionAmountNewsRadioDamageStationsUnbelievableNew York TimesRadio StationsTelevision And Radio Author:Jackie Mason
“I don't think CNN is 'fake news.' I think there are some reports everywhere, in print, on TV, on radio, in conversation, that are not well-researched and are sometimes based on falsehoods.” ThinkingWellsSometimesTvsConversationNewsRadioFakeReportsPrintFalsehoodCnn Author:Kellyanne Conway
“[Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there. It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions.” PeopleMadeTwoPartyNewsNegativeInstitutionsRadioAdvertisingPresidentialFakeCandidatesCynicismSelectedPresidential CandidateTalk Radio Author:Barack Obama
“As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me. Before I came along, they had a monopoly. Before I came along, nationally all there was, was the three networks, the big newspapers, and CNN. When I started in '88, that was it. And now look. That monopoly they had is gone. Now there is Fox News, from 1996. That was nine years after I started. You got all kinds of conservative talk radio out there now. And that's done nothing but grow. I have not lost a single listener because of all the other shows. We've grown the pie, so to speak.” YearsLooksKindDoneShowsBigsHateThreeLostSpeakGrowsGoneMediaOughtNewsConcernedConservativeRadioNewspapersNineAll KindsPieListenersFoxesMonopolyHate MeNine YearsCnnFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.” FactsHumorFunnyLiteratureNewsRadioDuesSarcasmSarcasticBearableBroadcastingJockeysDiskRadio News Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.” MeanGrowthTelevisionInternetNewsPhonesRadioCornersAccessCellsGlobesCell PhoneSatellitesBreaking NewsExponential GrowthTelevision And Radio Author:Dee Dee Myers
“I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.” DreamTvsNewsRadioRelativeGigsObscurityGreat TimesHad A Great Time Author:Joe Rogan
“I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.” GivingFirstsStuffParentHoursTakenNewsPagesNotesRadioReportsBeing A Parent Author:Thom Yorke