Alan Colmes Quotes

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

I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.

I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

A news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for his own profit.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take a side.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

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.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.