Brian Stelter Quotes

All news is an exaggeration of life.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

… yellow journalism

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

I do have a problem with how 'Politico' has engaged in covering politics, especially on our side. I think it is tweet-happy, it is clickbait in many cases, and it's devoid of facts.

Everything isn't breaking news. You can't go to DEFCON One just because Sanjay Gupta found a new moisturizer.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

Donald Trump often appears on Fox, which is ironic because a fox often appears on Donald Trump's head.

Fox is Trump's safe space. It's where he's not going to be humiliated, where he's not going to hear uncomfortable truths.