Bill Keller Quotes

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they're really deferential.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

Maybe Drudge is more entertainer than reporter. I imagine he enjoys baiting the mainstream media, then watching it look foolish when his story is debunked.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

Sadly, the mainstream media doesn't like to linger very long on news stories that might present President Trump in a positive light.

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

The media—stenographers to power.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

What Fox News has become in 2020 is a conclusion of decades of right wing media and rhetoric against the rest of the media. In the '90s it was about media bias. In the 2000s it was about media bias. Now, the rhetoric is so much more extreme. It's about enemies of the people.

The 'New York Times' undertakes extreme vetting against Republicans every single day.

Trump's rise was contingent on wide swaths of the country completely tuning out so-called mainstream media sources, while all too many outlets did a poor job covering 2016.

Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who, in simpler times, used to be considered valued customers.

The only people that actually like Schiff are media hacks.