“Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.” Quote by William Kristol
“I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.” ThinkingMeanWholeConservativeCurrentsDespiteDefenders Author:William Kristol
“You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.” IfsWould BeReadingOpinionCollegeTvsNewspapersMagazinesShockedWatching TvReading Newspapers Author:William Kristol
“My sense from talking to college students is that you have a healthier sense of the diversity of opinions or arguments or analysis about issues. In our day it was just sort of, "Well gee, this is what the news says so that's the way it is." It didn't really get challenged that much.” WayWellsTalkingOpinionIssuesStudentsCollegeDiversityNewsArgumentAnalysisCollege Students Author:William Kristol
“People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that way. We take 10, 20 years in the 50s and 60s as kind of the norm, when there was this sort of bi-partisan parent consensus.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsKindParentSunPaperWingsNormConsensusRight WingBack WhenPartisansWay Back When Author:William Kristol
“The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.” WayMediaPartisans Author:William Kristol
“I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.” PeopleBelieveStuffAgree Author:William Kristol
“I still would say generally that more people have access [to] and take advantage of more diversity of opinion than was once .” PeopleStillsOpinionDiversityAdvantageAccess Author:William Kristol
“For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.” ThinkingRealLeftWingsBitterAwfulBitternessAmerican HistoryAmerican PoliticsExtremismPartisansPartisanshipJoseph MccarthyGeorge Wallace Author:William Kristol
“There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesDifferentPast Author:William Kristol
“I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all tell me that you were busy reading Plato and [Lev] Tolstoy and playing violin in the orchestra, I'd say that was great. I wouldn't tell you to take time out from that to get involved in political journalism.” IfsPoliticalReadingReaderInvolvedStandardsBusyJournalismTake TimePlatoOrchestraGet InvolvedViolinLev Tolstoy Author:William Kristol