John McCain Quotes

One Rockette, who's probably a lug head, doesn't even know which end's up or down, ends up making news, and the media loves to present it.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

The [TV evening] news usually defines the candidate for the public.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

What draws the press is conflict, corruption and scandal.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

The media increase the political nastiness while distancing voters from those clashes. Citizens become spectators. ­Headline-­driven news emphasizes the extremes, the fights, the hysteria, the sensational. Political reporters, trying to appear objective by quoting two opposing sides to almost every story, mostly sharpen the differences, slighting any centrist position.

…Democrats are complaining that they can’t get their message out … because Donald Trump has blotted out the media sun. … The eclipse won’t end. The media has turned the Trump presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption—their self-absorption in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a political Macy’s parade of modern media’s own creation. They could let go of the ropes. But they won’t.

I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.

Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.

The dirty little secret the media doesn't want to admit is that Trump generates such good content that they can't help covering him even when they hate him.

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

I'm happy to talk to liberal media, and we often have good conversations.

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.

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

Going forward, which story will the media find more interesting, [Donald] Trump's or Hillary's [Clinton]? Does Hillary even have a story? Does anyone even care?

I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.

The media has created this environment that is okay to say almost anything about somebody who is, you know, right of Jane Fonda. You know, if you are slightly conservative or even libertarian points of view, especially if you are persuasive and charismatic and funny and effective, you will get called the most appalling things.

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.

The media does not love Hillary Clinton left, right or center.