David Brock Quotes

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

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.

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.

I apologize for what the media has done.

I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.

I've never really figured out why the media covers the media, you know?

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.

It is an honor to take the helm of 'Reliable Sources,' the very best of a very small number of programs about the media's role in society.

I think there is room for improvement for all of the media, and that certainly, and especially, includes me.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

I think social media has been really great for me.

Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

A guy playing pool in a pub once said to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I started thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be best mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in Oxford?

People will send me pictures of T-shirts with my face on it and it's nothing that I ever would've imagined in a million years as a kid.

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

My humbleness and the work I do each day speak for me.

When I go to parties people recognize me and that's another contact, another tool in my bag of tricks. I don't even have a publicist. I work it.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

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

I don't read the press that much.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me.