Thomas Frank Quotes

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

The 'New York Times' undertakes extreme vetting against Republicans every single day.

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

Members of the press have been so savaged by Trump and his propagandists in the media that journalists seem almost foreign or anti-American to his supporters.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed voter.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

There's so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel as if they're on your side.

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.