Keith Olbermann Quotes

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

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.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

I run the Daily Express purely for propaganda and for no other purpose.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

As to the journalist himself, it is clear that to get a living he must write to order, that is, he must write in accordance with the views of his paper, in so far as he writes at all on current topics.

The media is really failing the American people.

Politics won't allow for the truth.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

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.

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

The news pages are now routinely the site of the rankest propaganda.

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.