Dana Perino Quotes

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

The bias of the media is neither liberal nor conservative but negative.

I think the media, by and large, if you look at surveys over the years, has never been conservative-leaning by any measure.

Do I believe that their coverage is slanted and biased? Yes. I've seen it with my own eyes. A majority of reporters are liberal.

Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

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.

I've never really figured out why the media covers the media, you know?

The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

The Washington press corps is all too often the Praetorian Guard of the left.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.