Bill Kristol Quotes

The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

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

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

The press creates a caricature.

What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

Part of the problem is that if anybody has a gut reaction about an issue, they can go online and have it backed up. That said, they can also find support for their ideas in the mainstream media - because when the mainstream media gives a so-called balanced view, it's often misleading.

Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.

Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the network evening news, universities, church bureaucracies, the New York Times, or the Washington Post. Institutions that are overwhelmingly left-liberal will continue to misinform the public and distort public discourse.

I don't understand why it's the fault of the media for focusing on an issue that Mike Pence are crediting Donald Trump for bringing to the fore.

Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.

In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.