Science & Tech Quote by Larry King

King’s line lands with the dry frustration of someone who helped build the very megaphone he’s critiquing. On paper, modern media looks like pure advantage: hundreds of TV channels, a bottomless internet, infinite ways to “get the word out.” King turns that assumption inside out. The joke is that abundance doesn’t equal clarity; it often produces the opposite. When everyone can broadcast, attention becomes the real scarce resource, and candidates don’t fail because they lack outlets - they fail because the signal can’t survive the noise.

The intent is half lament, half needle. Coming from a broadcaster whose career depended on booked guests and tight segments, it’s also a subtle indictment of political communication that mistakes access for persuasion. You can have every platform on Earth and still not land a coherent message if your campaign is risk-averse, over-scripted, or chasing micro-audiences with tailored half-truths. “Get the word out” implies a single word: a thesis, a spine. King suggests candidates increasingly don’t have one, or they’re too scared to say it plainly.

The context is the late-20th/early-21st century media shift King watched up close: from three-network scarcity to cable fragmentation to the internet’s endless feed. His quip captures a cultural pivot where “coverage” stopped being the goal and “cut-through” became the problem. It’s not nostalgia for simpler times so much as a warning: more channels don’t create more understanding; they create more opportunities to hide.