Mike Cernovich Quotes

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

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.

You're safer not believing what you read in the New York Times. I don't care what it's about, but certainly that you're safer not believing anywhere in the mainstream media the general thrust of this story, that the Russians wanted Donald Trump to win and hacked the Democrats and embarrassed John Podesta and Hillary Clinton and succeeded.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

When people think about CNN today, they think about our television coverage, politics, and Donald Trump. And I get it; I'm not suggesting that's wrong. But I think there is a much bigger story going on at CNN.

I've blogged since 2001 and was first attracted to the medium by its wild-west aesthetic, if simply telling the truth that corporate media wasn't telling could be so rebellious as to be defined as 'wild west.'

Believe me, I've known a lot of journalists, and their opinions on most subjects are wrong. If the entire mainstream media is aligned against Trump, it is just about the best endorsement he could hope for!

Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

We can't have Trump supporters only trust what comes out of conservative news media and vice versa.

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, 'I told you it was a great idea.'

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

I fully acknowledge that I am not a journalist.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.