Media Conformity Quotes

If you look at the New York Times, it says X; if you look at the Washington Post, it says the same thing. And if you turn on any television newscast it's the same thing you already heard, that's research. And that's one of the ways it's done. Authority ends up being imputed simply because of volume. I mean, all of these different news organizations reporting the exact same thing.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Covid has been a painful lesson in the costs of media and elite conformity, though we wish we could say the conformists have learned much from it.

It is inconceivable that CNN's morning show or any other show could be anything but horribly boring. Why? Because they won't let anyone take risks.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Reporters are like blackbirds sitting on a telephone wire. One flies off and they all fly off. One flies back and they all fly back.

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

Most people in the media aren't bad people. They just go along to get along and it's the group culture and the conditioning. As soon as they see that things are wrong, some of them will start speaking out and making a stand.