Matt Barnes Quotes

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

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

All the media are horrible.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

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

Whoever said I hated the media?

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

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.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

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 cover media people the way they cover politicians.

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

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.

Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so.

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.