Dan Crenshaw Quotes

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

People are so sick of these Twitter tirades. They want leaders they can be proud of.

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.

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 the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

I think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what Donald Trump says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas.

In Washington, there is a way to have disagreements and debates, which is so healthy, but a way to be friends at the end of the day, which I believe is the essence of America.

I don't like the whole 'slander, slander' conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private.