Shaun King Quotes

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

We should always remember that Fox News will stick out like a sore thumb no matter what the other news outlets do, and that has to be recognized as an issue.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

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

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

… there was partisanship in the newspapers …. Newspapers were not neutral. Newspapers were the political vehicle of a particular group and sometimes they were the cultural vehicle as well. It is also important to keep in mind that some of the newspaper editors were very friendly with … political leaders

The media increase the political nastiness while distancing voters from those clashes. Citizens become spectators. ­Headline-­driven news emphasizes the extremes, the fights, the hysteria, the sensational. Political reporters, trying to appear objective by quoting two opposing sides to almost every story, mostly sharpen the differences, slighting any centrist position.

Stop pretending journalists are anything other than the Hillary PR team.

Critics say that Fox News leans right, but the truth is, it's more centrist - it just looks right-wing in comparison to the other news outlets.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

Do I believe that their coverage is slanted and biased? Yes. I've seen it with my own eyes. A majority of reporters are liberal.

I have never witnessed a concerted effort by any news organization to take a stand one way or the other on a political issue, to damage one particular party or help another.

For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.

Everyone that is not an ultra-conservative recognizes the irony of FOX's 'Fair and Balanced' moniker, which only accentuates its actual bias.

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.

Apparently, all foreign media organisations have to follow an approved script of acceptable coverage, lest they are accused of interference. And make no mistake: we're not talking about neutrality. The only acceptable approach was, 'Support Clinton, attack Trump'.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take a side.

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.