Jeff Zucker Quotes

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.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

Fox is fair and balanced.

I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

I don't trust CNN anchors.

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

We can't have Trump supporters only trust what comes out of conservative news media and vice versa.

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.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

The media's job is to question a premise.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.