Eugene Jarecki Quotes

What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.

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

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology

I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin' news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it.

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

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.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

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

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.