Words matter. These are the best Brian Stelter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.
Interviewers, even the ones that support the person they’re interviewing, have an obligation to probe further and push back when a candidate says something dangerous.
Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He’s blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form of President Trump.
Chris Wallace is probably the most of an exception because his program, ‘Fox News Sunday,’ also airs on Fox broadcast stations. So he doesn’t feel as many of the same ratings pressures to please the right wing audience versus all the rest of the programs.
Trump prides himself on being an intimidator.
Trump forces us to ask questions we didn’t used to ask.
With regards to Trump’s treatment of Putin and Russia, national security experts and journalists have been citing the fact pattern and saying there’s something strange going on.
I think it’s clear that Trump is usually in a reactive mode, reacting to what he sees and hears on Fox.
History suggests that big corporate maneuvers tend to coincide with changes in morning-TV fortunes, either because the new managers tinker with the product or fail to take it seriously.
I don’t subscribe to the argument that TV networks gave Trump too much attention and that’s the main reason why he’s president, nor do I subscribe to the argument that reporters ignored Trump’s America.
We should always remember that Fox News will stick out like a sore thumb no matter what the other news outlets do, and that has to be recognized as an issue.
Trump might think that Fox needs his star power, and on the margins it’s true that Trump appearances and interviews are right-wing ratings boosters. But the network was No. 1 long before he became a politician.
When I watch Tucker’s show, I hear – you’re going to think I’m crazy – I hear 2024 campaign monologues. That’s what I sometimes hear him doing, thinking about what is the post-Trump GOP.
Trump was a Fox News viewer before he was a Fox News star. He learned a lot about the Republican party’s base by watching the network and calling into the morning show ‘Fox & Friends’ while still starring on NBC’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’
One of the principles of White House coverage is that a wide variety of news outlets should be represented at briefings and press conferences.
Trump’s words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.
News outlets use words like erratic, volatile, unstable but rarely are Trump’s words and actions covered as a whole and rarely do news outlets take it to that next level.
I think that having a baby is going to change my mind in so many ways. I have no idea how, but I’m looking forward to finding out.
The New York Times’ coverage of Trump’s taxes is an emperor-has-no-clothes moment.
Biden’s first day, and Psaki’s first day, sent a message that functional government is back.
I keep hearing from readers who say ‘Hoax’ helps them understand their own family a little bit better.
Yeah, President-elect Trump is many things. To his voters, he’s a beloved figure. But one of the things he is, is a conspiracy theorist.
Fox is Trump’s safe space. It’s where he’s not going to be humiliated, where he’s not going to hear uncomfortable truths.
I always thought I would be the person who sat in the chair for 12 hours. Then I realized there are only three people who do that job.
This is exactly what I thought – that I didn’t have enough hair. Peter Jennings. Tom Brokaw. Dan Rather. Beautiful locks, beautiful heads of hair.
Well, I think the public has been well-served by the increase in fact-checking. And I find it shocking that not all news outlets have invested in hiring fact-checkers because the line is so pervasive.
In this war on truth we are all living in, ‘hoax’ is a potent, malicious, ugly little word and Trump has been using it more every year. So has Fox.
Fox is described as a news operation, a news network, but it’s also a political operation.
Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to contribute to their communities, honestly and reliably.
Trump followed Fox’s lead. He parroted what he heard on TV. He lied and lied, but rather than suffer the consequences, his lies were excused and supported and even celebrated by his media enablers.
What I always tell people about Trump, or Kellyanne Conway, or Sarah Sanders, is that when you are interviewing these people, it is really more about the interviewer than the interviewee. What I mean by that is that the interviewer has to be ready to interrupt, fact-check, challenge, rebut.
These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They’re losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.
Biden can talk about politics not needing to be a raging fire. But it is.
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.
The Fox-Trump feedback loop is unlike anything we’ve seen in media before.
It’s not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we’d all be better off, right?
Writing is my favorite part of the job.
The Internet creates more space for extremism, and the echo chamber effect accelerates the process.
There is a feedback loop between Trump and TV that is both good and bad.
Well I think I’m of the view that Fox has a monopoly position… I think Fox has tremendous power from that point of view, but there’s also the sense of fearing their audience.
One way to solve a mystery is by asking the right questions until answers start to emerge.
It is an honor to take the helm of ‘Reliable Sources,’ the very best of a very small number of programs about the media’s role in society.
I suppose my attitude is what’s most important is that we surround the president’s misleading information with accurate information and help people know what is true ’cause I think the biggest trend of the Trump years is that people are increasingly confused about what is real and what is made-up.
Of course, ‘Fox & Friends’ is more of an entertainment product than a newscast. The show’s viewers know that the morning show promotes Trump and his agenda. Most of Trump’s interviews are with boosterish shows like this.
There’s a gender gap throughout television and it’s very pronounced in morning TV since these shows are mostly meant for women.
Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.
Trump’s inability to face the truth of his loss to Biden might explain why he has barely faced reporters at all in the closing weeks of his presidency. Even more remarkably, he rarely ever called into his favorite TV shows.
I am glad that ‘Hoax’ came out a couple weeks before Bob Woodward’s book. We both have these one word titles. His is ‘Rage,’ mine is ‘Hoax.’ They do make for a great pairing, and I’m not saying that as a sales pitch!
Look, conspiracy theories are so much more interesting than the truth. But the last time I checked, Fox still has the word ‘news’ in its name.
There are so many families that are divided by Fox and Trump. I think a lot of people have been surprised by just how deep and how corrupt the roots are – how there’s been collusion between Fox and Trump right in plain sight the whole time, and yet it’s not often recognized.
