Aaron McGruder Quotes

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

Media is set up to give information to the people - at least that's what it says. But we all know in the U.S. that media is a capitalistic system, people are getting paid to write things, they have bosses and editors, and they have bosses, and they put pressure on people to write intriguing stories that catch the eye.

When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged.

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

Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them.

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

The few ... being closely combined ... inploy no printers [journalists and writers] but those that will adhear strictly to their vuies and interests.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.

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.

The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement.

Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.