Jedediah Bila Quotes

In the cable news arena, you have two partisan networks looking out for their viewers. I think CNN needs to look out for the rest of us.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

CNN is destroying their franchise. They've become either the trial network or the story network.

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.

You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

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.

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

The Constitution does not guarantee objectivity of the press …. The question … is not whether news shall be unprejudiced but rather whose prejudices shall color the news.

In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint, that's bias.

The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion.

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.