Margarita Simonyan Quotes

Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.

You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

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

Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He's blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form of President Trump.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.

If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

If journalism is sometimes inaccurate and often inadequate, ignorance would not be preferable.

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

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.

I think the Indian media suffers from a feudal mindset.

To presume that my greatest achievement is that I dated someone famous twenty years ago is completely sexist and anti-woman. It's lazy, nasty journalism that makes me sad about our world.

Don't ever believe what you see in films.

I went to UMass-Amherst and was like, 'I want to work in news, I want to be a journalist.' Then I got there and was like, 'what kind of crap is this?' They inflate everything. It will be like snowing outside, like just a little bit, and they are like 'Giant storm coming, batten down the hatches!' and I just didn't like that aspect of it.

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.

I don't like that I'm made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.

This is in a nutshell, this is what's wrong with our media, and we see that really played out full in this election [2016], where this is undoubtedly the most toxic election that we've had in - certainly in my lifetime.

I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs that they have to do. I am much more in awe of and am celebratory of great journalism when I see it, and I'm much more critical of bad journalism, or crap masquerading as journalism.

Oh press - must you spread hate? Can't you just stick to being wrong?