Media Backlash Quotes

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.

Did people's attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I've had some flak - particularly doing television.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

I'm getting criticism on social media, saying, 'Ah, you ducked Shane Mosley.' I've never ducked anyone in my life. They need to look into it a bit more.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.

I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Donald Trump is taking flak from the media, establishment republicans and all the democrats for merely stating the obvious and the truth: Vladimir Putin is much more of a leader than President Obama.

I was a mess… It's like 'Rock Me Tonite' is an MBA course on how a video can go really wrong.

One of the things that drives Trump's popularity is that he sticks it to these people in the media. And people love seeing that.

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.

No one ever complained about Facebook for a single day until Donald Trump was president.

It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people andstart them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.

As soon as you make a mistake, you're killed by the press.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!