John McCain Quotes

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

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

Fox Televison News is reaching Third Reich standards of media coverage of world affairs.

Everyone knew how powerful Roger Ailes was. I certainly felt intimidated by that; the culture of 'Fox and Friends' was intimidating to me.

One of the things that is for sure unique, we have never seen in this country a billion dollar propaganda industry in full service and in absolute control of an administration in the way that FOX News is.

Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.

Fall to your knees and thank God for Fox News. Pray for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Pray for them. Pray for strength and spine, and pray that everybody involved has chicken salad for lunch so it doesn't clog anybody's arteries. Keep them going.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of cohabitates in the same fishbowl is ultimately a bigger part of the story than people outside of the fishbowl really know.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.