Chris Hayes Quotes

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.

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.

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

Fox Televison News is reaching Third Reich standards of media coverage of world affairs.

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

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

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

What Fox News has become in 2020 is a conclusion of decades of right wing media and rhetoric against the rest of the media. In the '90s it was about media bias. In the 2000s it was about media bias. Now, the rhetoric is so much more extreme. It's about enemies of the people.

Fox News is garbage.

I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention.

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

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.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves.

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.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

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.'

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.