“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O” ChildrenFactsPoliticalSimpleAnimalNewsAdultsFairsBillsHistoricalBalancedFoxesAbrahamFox NewsDiscerningIcebergHistorical FactsDomesticated AnimalsJohn Wilkes Booth Book:The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders Source: The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders
“There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'” LooksBookLyingMovementNewsFairsPropagandaComparisonLiarsBalancedSeanNpr Author:Al Franken
“If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.” IfsFirstsLongNewsFairsIdealsJournalismReportsAccurateUnbiasedGood Journalism Author:Walter Cronkite
“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.” FirstsBelieveTwoWarHardAgeNextNationsPeaceInterestReligiousHeardPoliticianBattleNewsFairsStandingIdeologyIslandsCivilizedThis DaySquaresWowMuseDeclarationOld FashionedConferencesFanaticismHostageHard To BelieveNavalNational InterestsNukesCivilized NationsDeclaration Of War Author:William Safire
“I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.” PoliticalReadingNewsFairsRelyWire Author:Craig Newmark
“After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.” PeopleYearsKindMovingOrderCoursesLevelsNumbersMillionsWrittenMediaEventsDiseaseNewsFairsSpreadDramaticRelatedBombsMassiveSteadyAvoidedFamineMalnutritionAttrition Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.” IfsMenWorldMatterHandsGovernmentPoliticalTroublePaperNewsConcernedFairsTestsFilledPressesDemocraticLibertarianLocalsFamiliarDefinedGood ManJailRegimesPresidencyGood NewsPapersBad NewsArrivalsDemocratic Government Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan "You Can Depend on CNN". Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?” KnowsHandsUsedDifferencesWatchesDependsNewsFairsOkayYeahBalancedFoxesSlogansNot FairCnnFox News Author:Jon Stewart
“Anchors like Megyn Kelly are incredibly powerful in terms of distilling the information and reporting the news and maybe some opinion to the public in a fair handed and complete way.” WayTermPowerfulOpinionInformationNewsFairsAnchors Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I think it's fair to point out that there is bias in the media on both sides, both right and left. And that it's very hard to find objective news because we have gotten, particularly as you watch cable news, it's so dominated by opinion.” ThinkingHardLeftSidesOpinionWatchesMediaNewsFairsObjectivesBiasBoth SidesCablesCable News Author:Rand Paul