Jon Stewart Quotes

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

I think the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.

I'm less upset with politicians than the media. I feel like politicians, there is a certain, inherent - you know, the way I always explain it is, when you go to the zoo and a monkey throws its feces, it's a monkey. But, when the zookeeper is standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey... Somebody's got to be the zookeeper.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.

I think that there are some in the media who have an overinflated view of their mission.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

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.

At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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

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

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

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

I apologize for what the media has done.