Jon Stewart Quotes

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

The press is the enemy.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

There’s no town in the world that has the leaks that come out of this town. [Washington, DC.]

The relationship between the press and the president is always inherently bad; it's never good.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

The evil is in the White House at the present time.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Look at this Judith Miller thing. Isn't that problematic? Like, she's getting fed information from the White House and she's feeding it to her editors and then it's in the Times and then the people at the White House can quote themselves? And it's the New York Times!

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I know politics; I know the media.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists. When professional antagonists become after-hours drinking buddies, they are not likely to turn each other in

The most secretive White House in modern history has learned the hard way …that it must reveal a pretty steady stream of secrets.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

My contempt for the instruments of public information—particularly the press, is unlimited ...