Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

The media are a bunch of maggots…. I don't smoke crack cocaine!

In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true.

At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.

Those that are goofy enough to believe the outrageous lies and hate spewed about me in the mind-numb media are inconsequential and pathetic. Those that know me are certain of my goodness and connect with me deeply.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.

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.

O'Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I am being accused of all this plastic surgery, which is absolutely not true.

It is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

I apologize for what the media has done.

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.