Noam Chomsky Quotes

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

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

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

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they're really deferential.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

American newspapers are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

There is a permanent war between journalists and the political classes.

The media is really failing the American people.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

Charlie Sykes - someone none of us have ever heard of - is suddenly the star of MSNBC and CNN once he comes out against Trump.

Donald Trump is a little bit like I am. He says what needs to be said. Most of all, folks, he's not afraid of the United States liberal media. They dislike him nearly as much as they hate me.

In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York Times' editorial page, or 'The Washington Post.'

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

In terms of mainstream media it's very difficult to break through if you're on the left.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.

When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.

It's really difficult for mainstream - let's say, cable outlets - to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the advertisers that are funding their shows are the same corporations that want to ensure that the same system continues.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

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