Gordon Strachan Quotes

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.

The ferociousness of some of the media is shocking.

The media are very dishonest. In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people - the fake news. They dropped off the word "fake." And all of the sudden, the story became, the media is the enemy. They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying, oh, no, this is no good. But that's the way they are. So I'm not against the media. I'm not against the press. I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't - I don't get too many of them.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

I will not have New York Times muck-racking the President of the United States.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

Hostility is the natural state of affairs between the White House and the Media

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

Whoever said I hated the media?

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.