Crucial Quote by Eric Alterman

The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news…

— Harold Evans

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable…

— Chris Hedges

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

— Michael Pollan

Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what…

— Franklin Foer

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

— George Clinton

As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion. This way…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

A lot of journalists help us to better understand the world by zooming out and sometimes zooming in on a really important case but…

— Rutger Bregman

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one…

— Walter Cronkite

“Whenever a politician in the know gives a journalist an exclusive in exchange for a particular spin that is in the politician’s interest, the…

— Yanis Varoufakis

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and…

— Jann Wenner

People choose their modes of information in much more tunneled ways. I think cable news contributes for sure. I think President Trump contributes.

— Martha MacCallum

The Washington media crowd, including conservative media, preaches to the choir of news junkies.

— Richard Grenell