Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Stelter - Page 2

From the collapse of the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, something that Trump said he would do on day one, to the explosive FBI announcement that there's an ongoing investigation into possible links between Russia and the Trump campaign, the common thread here is a White House with a credibility problem.

Well I think I'm of the view that Fox has a monopoly position... I think Fox has tremendous power from that point of view, but there's also the sense of fearing their audience.

Trump's war on the nation's news media, his war on truth, his war on reality ultimately caused him to become the first U.S. president to be impeached two times.

Fox News is a virtual public square for conservatives.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

Donald Trump has shouted 'hoax' hundreds of times, about everything from climate change to Supreme Court rulings to impeachment.

My view is, let's not shut down anyone's right to speak, let's meet their comments with more speech.

I want the Times to give tough reviews. That's partially why I read the Times.

The New York Times' coverage of Trump's taxes is an emperor-has-no-clothes moment.

You shouldn't fear your audience, you should serve your audience, serve them the truth.

Trump has broken the news system because he has found ways to go out there, get attention, say a lot of things that are untrue and confuse the public.

When I watch Tucker's show, I hear - you're going to think I'm crazy - I hear 2024 campaign monologues. That's what I sometimes hear him doing, thinking about what is the post-Trump GOP.

Trump might think that Fox needs his star power, and on the margins it's true that Trump appearances and interviews are right-wing ratings boosters. But the network was No. 1 long before he became a politician.

Trump's words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.

Some journalists are schmucks, in it for themselves, willing to cut corners. But in my experience the vast majority of journalists are trying to contribute to their communities, honestly and reliably.

Trump followed Fox's lead. He parroted what he heard on TV. He lied and lied, but rather than suffer the consequences, his lies were excused and supported and even celebrated by his media enablers.

I don't subscribe to the argument that TV networks gave Trump too much attention and that's the main reason why he's president, nor do I subscribe to the argument that reporters ignored Trump's America.

The Fox-Trump feedback loop is unlike anything we've seen in media before.

Biden can talk about politics not needing to be a raging fire. But it is.

I always thought I would be the person who sat in the chair for 12 hours. Then I realized there are only three people who do that job.

Trump's inability to face the truth of his loss to Biden might explain why he has barely faced reporters at all in the closing weeks of his presidency. Even more remarkably, he rarely ever called into his favorite TV shows.

We ask how did ISIS members become radicalized? How did the shooters in El Paso or Orlando or Las Vegas become radicalized? Well, the answer very often is the Internet. The digital land of make-believe. The same pipeline that helps my children learn, helps you connect with your loved ones also poisons some adults and distorts their reality.

Sean Hannity operates at Fox News with few rules. He seemingly says and does whatever he wants, even when it embarrasses his own colleagues.

Interviewers, even the ones that support the person they're interviewing, have an obligation to probe further and push back when a candidate says something dangerous.

The leaders of Fox News will never say this out loud, but they believe that their media empire is bigger than President Trump.

Yeah, President-elect Trump is many things. To his voters, he's a beloved figure. But one of the things he is, is a conspiracy theorist.

I think that having a baby is going to change my mind in so many ways. I have no idea how, but I'm looking forward to finding out.

Looking back, Mr. Trump's exploitation of the term 'fake news' to smear journalists was the single most consequential thing he did during the transition period. He built the scaffolding for his supporters to reject any and all information that wasn't Trump-approved.

For Fox, it's extremely discomfiting not to be No. 1 all day, every day.

This is exactly what I thought - that I didn't have enough hair. Peter Jennings. Tom Brokaw. Dan Rather. Beautiful locks, beautiful heads of hair.

When Trump lifers are calling for troops in the streets because they lost an election, that's radicalization. When they start speculating about breaking off and creating their own country, that is radicalization. All of this election denialism talk is radical. And yet, it is infesting the airwaves. It's everywhere in the pro-Trump media.

Trump prides himself on being an intimidator.

It's incredible that Apple is launching a streaming service with an ode to broadcast TV.

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

Trump was a Fox News viewer before he was a Fox News star. He learned a lot about the Republican party's base by watching the network and calling into the morning show 'Fox & Friends' while still starring on NBC's 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

During his 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump didn't rely on the word 'hoax.' He didn't even say 'fake news.' He called the news media 'sick' and biased, but he didn't seriously start to deny its legitimacy until January 2017, when he was confronted by evidence that the Russian government aided his election. That's when he truly needed the news to be fake.

Were there hour-by-hour countdowns to the end of the Bush presidency? The end of the Obama years? No, definitely not to this extent. Trump's time in office is ending in ignoble fashion.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

No one is talking. No one is emailing. No one is texting. It's spooky and scary.

Donald Trump has been planting seeds for over a year, warning supporters not to trust the government, the polls or the media, because it's all rigged, he says.

I'm telling you, November 8, we better be careful, because that presidential election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or it's going to be taken away from us.

We, as a country, cannot allow ourselves to become numb to this. We, as a media, cannot shrug it off as old news, because the real danger here is that, when Donald Trump lies to his supporters about the others who are trying to steal the election, some of his supporters believe him.

Donald Trump's biggest lie is about the election itself, the integrity of the election. He is alleging a massive conspiracy, thereby creating a massive challenge for the news media.

This is the whole ball game, and this is what I really want to say. I'm proud that journalists are standing up, individually, speaking up in ways that we rarely see. They're not anti-Trump. They're pro-democracy.

I'm afraid the President election is going to be rigged. I have to be honest.

The political system, folks, is rigged. It's a rigged, disgusting, dirty system.

If the news is that important, it will find me.