David Brock Quotes

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

I think the media's responsibility is to get to the bottom of things - to get to the truth.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

I apologize for what the media has done.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself

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

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

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.'

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.