Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs 

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) 

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht 

Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science.
Linda Bowles  , political columnist

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977) 

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg 

You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
Earl Bush  , press aide to Richard Daley

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen (1894-1956)