Mark E. Hyman Quotes

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news.

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

I've been a news junkie as long as I can remember - and once you've covered a presidential campaign, it's nearly impossible to tear yourself away. There's so much at stake.

I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of cohabitates in the same fishbowl is ultimately a bigger part of the story than people outside of the fishbowl really know.

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

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.

When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

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

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

I know of no more patriotic group than television journalists.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

International bankers control the majority of the magazines and newspapers in this country.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.

The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it into him.' I've never seen it. If a Democrat or Republican commits some horrendous story, the story will run. The networks will cover it.