Election Quote by Jon Lovett

“Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.”

— Patrick Cockburn

I thought the coverage of the election 2017 was disgraceful, and it was dishonest. It was ideologically driven and I think that the news…

— Bill O'Reilly

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing I learn…

— Rachel McAdams

Cable news tends to be talking points - you don't have that much time to substantively unpack an issue.

— Margaret Hoover

The sense that I get is that every election cycle, the mainstream press devolves more and more.

— Ana Kasparian

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

— Sally Quinn

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to…

— Jorge Ramos

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or…

— Brit Hume

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people,…

— Jon Lovett

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

— Kal Penn

“[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s…

— George Packer