Ainsley Earhardt Quotes

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

Twitter isn’t real life, and cable television doesn’t represent the public. The vast majority of Twitter traffic is driven by less than 2% of the public. According to Pew, less than 6% of Americans generate 99% of political tweets. The programs of Tucker Carlson, Lawrence O’Donnell and Anderson Cooper draw prime-time audiences that sound impressive until you realize that together they account for less than 2% of the public.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

The media are a bunch of maggots…. I don't smoke crack cocaine!

The press creates a caricature.

I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

To be honest, TV can portray you in whatever way they want to portray you.

Tiger Woods has known Donald Trump... for many years, well before he became the president. He knows the true Donald Trump, not the one that the mainstream media tries to post up all the time.