Administration Quote by Al Gore

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of…

— Erik Wemple

I don't think they need to be nice to reporters, but the White House seems to imagine that releasing information is like a tap…

— George Packer

On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between…

— Walter Millis

Even the White House has a press agent.

— Larry Wall

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

— Matt Drudge

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests…

— Henry Adams

Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a…

— Dee Dee Myers

There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out…

— Daniel Lyons

My job as a reporter, my job as a senior White House correspondent for CNN, is to report the news, but also to highlight…

— Jim Acosta

There's something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

— Masha Gessen

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

— Roger Ailes