Reince Priebus Quotes

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.

I would love for us to get back to a place in this country where we have real journalists, where we have real news reporting.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.

Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

I don't think CNN is 'fake news.' I think there are some reports everywhere, in print, on TV, on radio, in conversation, that are not well-researched and are sometimes based on falsehoods.

The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk to find out what's going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

We need to boycott the mainstream media, and we need to go online, and we need to find credible news sources.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

You can actually make your own Trump policies by going through the incinerator at the Daily Mail and picking through the dust for anything they thought might get them prosecuted.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

There are media houses which put headline with a question mark, and that is how they can get away without taking the accountability of the allegation. They put the question mark. Let's analyze it a little - a common reader will not remember the question mark: they will remember the allegation.

In the era of President Trump, we've gone from believing things that are 'true enough' to believing things that aren't true at all, and can be demonstrably proven so.