Contempt Quote by Carl Bernstein

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's…

— Carl Bernstein

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

— H. L. Mencken

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors…

— Howard Dean

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about…

— Scott Pelley

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch…

— Oscar Wilde

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.

— Siri Hustvedt

Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards…

— Steven Johnson

It's easy to complain about the obvious reality that our political media are completely corrupted and engage in propaganda, not journalism. But as they…

— Mollie Hemingway

Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural life. Ignorance…

— Henry Giroux

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

— Geraldo Rivera

The level of journalism in this country is just so pathetically poor, and I've, in a sense, gone over the top of them, which…

— Bob Hawke