Bill Keller Quotes

I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

I think defeating Fox - and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news - is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda, and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.

If you want to understand why a minority of American voters are unplugged from the fact-based news that the rest of the country depends on, just imagine being told multiple times a day that real news is a hoax.

Fox News is garbage.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

There's so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel as if they're on your side.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.