Claire Crawford-Mason Quotes

The bias of the media is neither liberal nor conservative but negative.

The media are a bunch of maggots…. I don't smoke crack cocaine!

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

All the media are horrible.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

'...all the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism

It is not a pleasure to be here. It's an embarrassment that we come so late, and that there are so few of us here.... It's an embarrassment that so much of the media are missing. They are more concerned with someone who drinks too much, when we are trying to deal with the issue of millions of people who are not eating at all.

The press are scum.

The media I’ve had a lot to do with is lazy. we fed them and they ate it everyday.

If this newspaper pestilence shall continue for fifty years more, the intelligence of our people will be destroyed.... Hold fast and zealously, therefore, to the slogan I now ask you to make your own: hatred and contempt, death and destruction, of the press of today.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap—and they know it

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news.

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

… this little group of men who not only enjoy a right of instant rebuttal to every presidential address, but more importantly, wield a free hand in selecting, presenting, and interpreting the great issues of our nation.... The American people would rightly not tolerate this kind of concentration of power in government. Is it not fair and relevant to question its concentration in the hands of a tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government?

...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.

The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

How did we get into this mess? Because the press, during the 1980s committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. The media took a dive, caved in, and did not tell the American people the price they would eventually pay for Reaganomics.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

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

Some people will say that words like ‘scum’ and ‘rotten’ are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.

The media's intentional corruption of the truth is an abomination and NRA members will never - and I mean never - submit or surrender to the national media!