Genevieve Gorder Quotes

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

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

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

I'm not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful - the debate will always garner that kind of traction because anything the BBC does is always in the spotlight.

I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

I've never really figured out why the media covers the media, you know?

I don't pick and choose what LeBron should talk about any more than any talking heads who try to pick and choose.

Here's one thing the media and all of us should learn: Trump is not wrong nearly as much as everybody says he's wrong.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been talking about this stuff for years. There are lots of people out there who understand what’s going on. The problem is, they aren’t much picked up on Fox News.

Terry Gross has never had me on her show and you know, it's her show; she sets the agenda and that's not Hodgman. But I'll still listen to it.

Every president feels that he has gotten unfair, dishonest coverage from the news media.

There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack. You don't feel that there's a great reservoir of resentment in the press as you do in England.

...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that delights in trying to knock us down. Which we have done nothing to deserve. Except, perhaps, love our country and everything it stands for.

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.