Brian Stelter Quotes

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

Members of the press have been so savaged by Trump and his propagandists in the media that journalists seem almost foreign or anti-American to his supporters.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

I hate journalists. I don't trust them.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

I love what news has become. It's no longer based on facts, it's based on entertainment.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

Looking back, Mr. Trump's exploitation of the term 'fake news' to smear journalists was the single most consequential thing he did during the transition period. He built the scaffolding for his supporters to reject any and all information that wasn't Trump-approved.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.