Matt Taibbi Quotes

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

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.

Whoever said I hated the media?

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.

You live by the media, you live by the polls, you've got to suffer by the polls, too.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

I think defeating Fox - and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news - is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda, and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.

Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.

AAP leaders have failed to take people in confidence.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that happen every day. So if you watch and follow a lot of the news, at the end of the day, you know exactly how the world is not working.

The media do strange things.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.