Charles Barkley Quotes

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

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

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.

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

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

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

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

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

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

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

All the media are horrible.

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.

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

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.

I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.