Matt Gaetz Quotes

I'm very wary of news on television.

Many people no longer trust major media outlets to give them valuable information - and they may never do so again.

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.

Don't believe the fake media.

Obviously, I agree with Trump on many of his criticisms of the mainstream media. You can absolutely argue that their failure to report honestly, to get outraged before we could, and to collude with the Clinton campaign directly led to the rise of Trump.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the editors and their editorial freedom is posing a major threat to the Indian media.

All the media are horrible.

News isn't even the truth on television.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.