Daryn Kagan Quotes

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

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

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

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.

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.

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

We in the media should be breaking the news and not making the news.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

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

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

I've been in journalism my entire adult life and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt.

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.