Lionel Shriver Quotes

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

When the people perceive that the print media is reporting what they believe is correct, then they tend to read the print media and to follow news on the television.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

People see whatever the media first reports.

It's the media who love statistics.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.

I only know what I read in the papers.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I don't think about the media.