Michael Crichton Quotes

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

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.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

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

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

The biggest danger to media, and what ultimately drove it apart from the public's trust, are the people who believe that they are uncorrupted when their body of work doesn't support such a belief.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor - they're only complaining because they got caught.

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

People continually ask me, "Why does the media do what it does? Why are they so obviously self-destructive? Why are they so obviously predictable? Why is the media so obviously biased? Do they not see how other people see?" No, they don't. But then again, they don't care, folks.

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

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

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

Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a Pulitzer prize for journalism and will put that level of weight on it, like they're an ambassador to some country we're trying to establish trade with.

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

David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

Good for Matt Lauer. I don't know why everyone is so critical because they thought that he was just gonna attack and bash [Donald] Trump and give Hillary [Clinton] a pass.

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.