Media Conflict Quotes

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

Here's the latest from the Pentagon -- the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News.

When you went to work in the morning you were going to war with the press.

There is a permanent war between journalists and the political classes.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

Trump's war on the nation's news media, his war on truth, his war on reality ultimately caused him to become the first U.S. president to be impeached two times.

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

An adversarial relationship between the president and members of the press can be expected.

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Hostility is the natural state of affairs between the White House and the Media

In place of presidential addresses, stump speeches, or town halls, we have Trump's demagogic mass rallies. In place of the usual jousting between the administration and the press, we have a president who fantasizes on Twitter about physically assaulting CNN.

There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer.

In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a "poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV."

I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.

As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV pundit. But if you want to be a consistently good columnist, you can't be on television.