Les Moonves Quotes

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

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.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

I have never witnessed a concerted effort by any news organization to take a stand one way or the other on a political issue, to damage one particular party or help another.

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

I love what news has become. It's no longer based on facts, it's based on entertainment.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

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.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

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

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.

I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to them is that they sometimes jump to conclusions about what this will mean. Get ahead of themselves.

When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.