Eric Alterman Quotes

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

I don't watch the media that much.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

All the media are horrible.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

We try and slow down the news.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

Whoever said I hated the media?

I get mad at myself when I get news from Twitter before I get it from a regular news source. Then I'm off to a bad start: getting the second-hand, filtered experience all day long.

I think defeating Fox - and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news - is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda, and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.