Larry King Quotes

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

Since the time of Richard Nixon, there has been a strange lack of will in the media to identify the real cause for Americans' anger at politicians who fall, publicly and spectacularly.

I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

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

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

CNN is destroying their franchise. They've become either the trial network or the story network.

It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate.

We don't get paid to cheer lead for Donald Trump. We're just paid to cover him.

In the cable news arena, you have two partisan networks looking out for their viewers. I think CNN needs to look out for the rest of us.

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

I have never seen anyone at CNN ever say, 'Boy, here's how we're going to deal with this today to put this guy down and elevate this guy up.' I've never seen it.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

There's a great deal of enthusiasm about quality, serious journalism. And some of it relates to personalities because it's people who do the news. But I think it reflects a real desire for facts, real news and reporting.

It'd be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American - that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

I don't subscribe to the argument that TV networks gave Trump too much attention and that's the main reason why he's president, nor do I subscribe to the argument that reporters ignored Trump's America.