Jon Lovett Quotes

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

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

In journalism the gold standard has become punditry rather than reporting.

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

Every time I watch CNN, it feels like you're assigning me homework. Is Trump a Russian spy? I don't know. You tell me - I'm watching the news. It feels like I'm watching CNN watch the news. Just take an hour, figure out what you want to say, then go on the air.

The level of journalism in this country is just so pathetically poor, and I've, in a sense, gone over the top of them, which they don't like.

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 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.'

I was increasingly disappointed in how so many of the members here of the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job: the bias at which they come from it at.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

We're going to fisk the 'New York Times.'

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.