Brian Stelter Quotes

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

The Fox-Trump feedback loop is unlike anything we've seen in media before.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

Television has become the primary precinct of politics.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

Politicians used to be able to change the subject. With television they cannot do that any more.

How can you govern if you always have to feed the news cycle?

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel—these undisputedly are the great molders of public opinion and public morals to-day.

We are going to have to endure an imperial media with a government by public opinion poll.

Political culture has become popular culture.