Barack Obama Quotes

Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan "You Can Depend on CNN". Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.

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.

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

It's a controversial segment, 'Watters World.' There's controversy around it.

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

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.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.