Between Quote by Jim Acosta

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

— Roger Mudd

The media characterizes every conversation as an adversarial one.

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a…

— Bob Iger

Of course, I'm not saying that news interviews can't be adversarial. Sometimes, you have to be nasty Columbo or we'd never get to the…

— Graham Linehan

There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys…

— John Chancellor

It is uncomfortable in the extreme for people, and particularly for members of the press, to confront the notion that a president could be…

— Joy Reid

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

— John Dickerson

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside…

— Dee Dee Myers

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch…

— Larry Speakes

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration…

— Dee Dee Myers

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

There is no law that guarantees press access to the White House. Communication was lessening during the Obama years. There was every reason to…

— Masha Gessen