Brian Stelter Quotes

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

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.

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

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

Diplomats lie to journalists, then believe the headlines.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

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.

The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.