George Monbiot Quotes

I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

1952 was the last year that television covered a political event as if television weren't there.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don't have much experience who haven't covered campaigns, the result is sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody's time.

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

The [TV evening] news usually defines the candidate for the public.

The press would rather cover a chanting demonstrator than cover the Speaker of the House.

I will not have New York Times muck-racking the President of the United States.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.