Howard Kurtz Quotes

I think The New York Times is one of the most dishonest media outlets I've ever seen in my life. The worst. The worst. The absolute worse. They have an agenda that you wouldn't believe.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

I thought the coverage of the election 2017 was disgraceful, and it was dishonest. It was ideologically driven and I think that the news agencies that did that will never return to a level of credibility ever.

The media, folks, is no good. They're no good - very dishonest.

All the media are horrible.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

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

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

The press are scum.

So you're from the press? Well, your newspapers can all go to hell. You lied yesterday and you're getting ready to lie again today. Go climb down my back.

During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

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.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'

Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not slanted in ways that appear to be at times just purely inaccurate.

So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.

Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan "You Can Depend on CNN". Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?