Rachel Maddow Quotes

Fox Televison News is reaching Third Reich standards of media coverage of world affairs.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

Fox News is garbage.

Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

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.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

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.

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.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

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