Alana Stewart Quotes

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

A labouring man ... read and study halfe his time, and then be at a loss to know what is true and what not. Thus the few have almost ruined the Libberty of the press.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

Don't trust everything you see on TV.

The media doesn't educate anyone.

Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.