David Brock Quotes

If the numbers keep mounting, newspapers will eventually have to admit that pool exists and give it some coverage.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Controversy sells books.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

You can say something from a public toilet and the whole world will know because the media will be there.

If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.

No one cares about anything until it's something that goes viral. It's most certainly frustrating.

I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

It's a truth of beat reporting: The bigger your subject gets, the bigger you get.

If you don't watch 'The Young Turks,' you don't know me at all. Whereas no one watches Anderson Cooper, but everyone knows him.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So yeah, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

The media has had its fun with me.

If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

Going forward, which story will the media find more interesting, [Donald] Trump's or Hillary's [Clinton]? Does Hillary even have a story? Does anyone even care?

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

Trump doesn't need to spend a dime to get his message out. Trump doesn't have to run an ad. Trump doesn't have to run a series. He doesn't have to pay people to show up. He doesn't have to buy TV advertising, because he gets more coverage than the combined advertising the rest of the Republicans could buy. And aside from the overwhelming, significant upset that is, the very fact of all that ticks them off. Donald Trump has direct access to his supporters. And you know who gives it to him? The media.

I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.

My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.