As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.
Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.
Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.
The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.
Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.
It really gets tiresome to be constantly accused of spreading negativity about Barack Obama and the country. He's doing that on his own. We just chronicle it here.
Sadly, the mainstream media doesn't like to linger very long on news stories that might present President Trump in a positive light.
There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.
If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
Remember, folks - do not doubt me on this - the media gets up every day hoping, praying, dreaming, thinking that that day something is going to surface or happen that will end up being the silver bullet that gets rid of Donald Trump.
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.
Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.
The media does not love Hillary Clinton left, right or center.
You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.
What positive change? Why didn't we hear a word about all of Hillary Clinton's good works for the Clinton charitable foundation? I mean, you would think that's where it would all be.But we didn't hear about it.
Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.
You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.
