Richard Cohen Quotes

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it's hard to find substantial journalism there.

Liberals watch MSNBC; conservatives watch Fox. They don't want to hear ten seconds of a liberal on Fox, and they don't want to hear ten seconds of a conservative on MSNBC.

I feel like the Left wants to destroy Fox News.

The greatest hoax of all of the Trump years is that Donald Trump has convinced one-third of the country not to believe not anything but Sean Hannity and Fox and Trump.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

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

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

We live in an age where people can not only choose their own sources, but they can choose their own facts.

If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.

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.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

I don't think what you hear on talk radio is representative of America.

I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.