Barton Gellman Quotes

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

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

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

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.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

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.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

Most journalists are idiots.

I don't trust CNN anchors.

Obviously, I agree with Trump on many of his criticisms of the mainstream media. You can absolutely argue that their failure to report honestly, to get outraged before we could, and to collude with the Clinton campaign directly led to the rise of Trump.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I only know what I read in the papers.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.