David Talbot Quotes

38 quotes in 624 categories

• Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally…
• When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways…
• The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90.…
• People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times…
• The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took…
• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there…
• They may be a little more high brow than we are.
• There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.
• You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was…
• Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.
• I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on…
• I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.
• I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before…
• I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.
• I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were…
• It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's…
• On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation,…

Browse David Talbot Quotes by Category