Tucker Carlson Quotes

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

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

The press is the enemy.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

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

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

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

I know of no more patriotic group than television journalists.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

All the news that fits we print.

The Washington Post is the first and prime source of information for the national government.... It can come very close to setting the nation's agenda.

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

The news and truth are not the same thing.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

I'm a journalism junkie.

I am interested in the press and what they do.

Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.

Media outlets do not exist in a vacuum.

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.