Media Balance Quotes

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

In the cable news arena, you have two partisan networks looking out for their viewers. I think CNN needs to look out for the rest of us.

I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.

I just hope that people get a variety of news sources to keep themselves informed.

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

Our job [White House press secretaries] is to serve the interest of the President while recognizing the interests of the press.

I don't think that Rush, Hannity, Drudge, Ann Coulter, Fox News, and AM Radio can create enough of a balance to undo the distorted media that we get from the Democrat Media Complex.

I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both.

I'm very careful with my media intake. I try and monitor it pretty carefully.

There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

I don't Twitter every day. I just think we should be more thoughtful with what we share. I don't care that you're turning a light on right now. That's great and all, but there's got to be a balance there.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

Too often reporters covering scientific debates give fringe views equal weight in a misguided attempt to achieve balance.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.

I get on social media sometimes. I think it's good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.

The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

I've had to consciously try not to do all television and try to do films.

I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.

There actually have never been many shows as equally balanced as 'Crossfire.'

The rise of Donald Trump established a new ground zero for liberal media, requiring no pretence of balance - better yet, with a kind of political brain haemorrhage, everybody seemed to have lost the ability to be balanced.