top of page

"If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV."
News,
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more News quotes

"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."

"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."

"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."

"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
News,

"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."

"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."

"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."
Explore more quotes by Val Kilmer


"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."


"I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me."


"Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television."


"It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage."


"Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught."
bottom of page