Media Influence on Politics Quotes

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

The media is the Democrat Party.

The leaders of Fox News will never say this out loud, but they believe that their media empire is bigger than President Trump.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

There's no question that the media today has a relationship with Barack Obama that... I can't say it's unique, because the modern-day media is the Democrat Party and their objective is to advance the Democrat Party agenda as well as try to discredit any opposing agenda, which would be us and the Republicans. But the relationship they've got with Obama is above and beyond that.

It is hard to tell where Fox ends and Trump begins. But if I had to choose one side of this, I would say Fox drives Trump more than Trump drives Fox.

Fox News has effectively become the establishment. Fox has - you know, during non-election years, really tended to out flank the Republican Party in many ways in its conservatism and yet sort of lists back a little towards the, let's say right-center establishment type figures in part because Rupert Murdock, whose Ailes's ultimate boss over at 21st Century Fox, is a bit more pragmatic and centrist than Ailes himself.