Brian Stelter Quotes

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

All the media are horrible.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

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.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

I apologize for what the media has done.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

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