Seymour Hersh Quotes

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

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.

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.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.

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

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.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the editors and their editorial freedom is posing a major threat to the Indian media.

All the media are horrible.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

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

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.

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.

TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

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.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

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