“In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.” WorldTodayTrumpNewsSpeedJournalismJunkieThoughtfulnessAmphetamines Author:Ellen Goodman
“In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.” IfsHumansSeemsSocialTrumpAuthorityNewsEvidenceBe GoodExplanationBehaviourBad NewsHuman SocietyOrderlyTokensAdaptingCoherenceAdapting To Change Author:Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
“Donald Trump told ABC news that if he had Oprah as a running mate, they could easily win. Although you know who'd definitely win? Oprah WITHOUT Donald Trump.” IfsKnowsRunningWinningTrumpNewsMates Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Donald Trump is not running for president. This is devastating news for Trump's supporters - all of whom are late night comedians.” RunningNightPresidentTrumpLateNewsComedianSupporterLate Night Author:Conan O'Brien
“The good news is, President Obama was born in America. The bad news is, so was Donald Trump.” AmericaPresidentBornTrumpNewsPresident ObamaGood NewsBad News Author:Jay Leno
“Donald Trump announced he got his own segment every Monday morning on Fox News. Just what Fox News needs - another blonde airhead.” NeedsMorningTrumpNewsFoxesMondayBlondeFox NewsMonday MorningAirheads Author:Bill Maher
“On Fox News, Donald Trump said Obama's birth certificate could indicate that he's a Muslim. Trump said he doesn't trust anyone with a foreign-sounding name, and neither does his daughter Ivanka.” DoeSaidNamesTrumpBirthNewsDaughterFoxesFox NewsCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:Conan O'Brien
“All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions.” Has BeensAmericaShareReturnTrumpHigherNewsOrganizationMissionsCorporationsMassiveAllegianceDividendsGruntShare Price Author:Laurie Garrett
“Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.” TrumpNewsInterviewsUsualFoxesSoftballVulgarityFox NewsInterviewersYiddishVulgarity Is Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“A recent analysis of election coverage by the Tindall report which tracks network nicely news programs found that Bernie Sanders received just ten minutes out of 857 minutes of campaign coverage in 2015. Compare that to 234 minutes for Donald Trump, and 113 for Hillary Clinton.” FoundMinutesTrumpTenNewsProgramElectionClintonTrackCampaignsCompareAnalysisReportsCoverage Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.” WayDifferentPartyTrumpRepublicanNewsResistanceDifferent WaysPushingRepublican PartyDominanceReacting Author:Chris Matthews
“We talked a lot about Donald's [Trump] record on immigration. There is irony that he has made the center of his entire campaign immigration, given that he faced a $1 million court judgment for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, given that news broke that he is hiring foreign workers at his fancy hotel in Florida.” MadeGivenMillionsRecordsTrumpJudgmentNewsCourtWorkersCampaignsImmigrationAliensBrokeIronyFancyHotelIllegalConspiracyFloridaHiringIllegal Aliens Author:Ted Cruz
“After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to have successfully undermine the network in the eyes of its core audience with perception of the Fox News brand among Republican adults hitting its lowest point in three years according to a new YouGov survey.” YearsSeemsEyeThreeAudienceBloodTrumpRepublicanPerceptionNewsAdultsStartingCoreBrandsPresidentialCandidatesThree YearsHittingFoxesLowestSurveysFox NewsPresidential CandidateFeudsLowest Point Author:Chris Hayes
“[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.” FirstsHappensTrumpNewsVoteSoil Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Thanks to NBC News and thanks to the NBC primetime TV network, Donald Trump has been in living rooms for 11 years being who he is. The Donald Trump running for president is not an unknown quantity. The Donald Trump running for president is the Donald Trump everybody's gotten to know, and quite a lot of people watch those Donald Trump TV shows, The Apprentice and whatever else on there.” PeopleKnowsYearsHas BeensShowsRunningPresidentRoomsWatchesTvsTrumpNewsThanksQuantityTv ShowsLiving RoomApprenticeNbcNbc News Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.” PeopleThinkingFactsHalfGoes OnTrumpNewsConservativeFoxesFox News Author:Erick Erickson
“If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.” IfsSaidWould BeClassMiddleTrumpTaxesNewsRaisesMiddle ClassSanityQuestioning Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I'm not going to play pundit on Donald Trump and criticize him. I will say the media's treatment of that illustrates a very, very different - I mean, it dominated the news for a week to 10 days once he was the nominee. In the primary, it didn't get, seemingly, even 30 seconds of news.” MeanDifferentPlayWeekMediaTrumpNewsPrimariesTreatmentCriticizeSecondsPundits Author:Ted Cruz
“The national media are doing everything they can to suppress bad news about Hillary Clinton and everything they can to maximize bad news about Donald Trump.” MediaTrumpNewsClintonBad News Author:Newt Gingrich
“I thought we would be concerned if he knew how to stay on message, if [Donald] Trump knew how to make the most of an argument against Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, by using some of the things that have been put on the news.” IfsHas BeensWould BeTrumpMessagesNewsConcernedArgumentClintonSecretary Author:Star Jones
“The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.” HelpingShowsTrumpNewsClaimsPaidBusyEngagedCyclesVirtuousReportersSupporterChasingCnnInsidiousSurrogates Author:David Folkenflik
“The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is the slower they do their work, the better off we are.” TeamWorstTrumpNewsTransitionGood NewsBetter Off Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“I've all venture a guess as we saw a lot of those executives going in for the viewers, we saw a bunch of Fox News executives going in there. We saw Jeff Zucker president of CNN standing there, just in case you don't know those faces. So there was all of muckety-mucks from all of the media, cable, broadcast, you name it.What is fairness to [Donald] Trump? With President-elect Trump?” KnowsFacesNamesPresidentCasesSawsMediaTrumpNewsStandingBunchExecutivesFairnessVentureFoxesViewersCablesCnnFox NewsStanding There Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I think his [Donald's Trump] objection would be to biased and unfair, which is not the way he characterize "Fox News" to me, anyway. But we're all looking for objective coverage.” ThinkingWayWould BeTrumpNewsObjectivesUnfairFoxesCoverageObjectionsBiasedFox News Author:Kellyanne Conway
“A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive.” WaySaidSocialPerfectMediaTrumpNewsOrganizationDefinitionsSocial MediaFakeArticlesDeceivingPopeGuardianDenver Author:Vivian Schiller
“[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness to Putin is a very scary thing for the country and the fact that the news was dominated for 33 days I think it was by WikiLeaks stories, that had an impact on states that were decided by a knife-edge.” ThinkingSaidCountryStatesFactsStoriesTrumpNewsDecidedImpactEdgesScaryBarackCandidatesKnivesPutinClosenessWikileaksScary Things Author:E. J. Dionne
“Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.” PeopleCoursesStuffMediaLike YouTrumpNews Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.” LongCountryWhiteMediaTrumpCreatingNewsLong TimeHotDebateCyclesPhenomenonJuneDominatingCaptivatingAnnouncingCandidacy Author:Megyn Kelly
“That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.” WayCharacterTrumpNewsFolksBarackFoxesSupporterRespondingFox NewsFictional Character Author:Barack Obama
“Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.” StoriesTrumpNewsRaisedImmigrationReportsOutletsInconsistency Author:Audie Cornish
“When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.” MeanTrumpNewsJournalismFakeDisagree Author:Gene Weingarten
“So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.” PeopleLongPresidentPowerfulPayModernAchieveTrumpNewsAdvertisingErasFoxesCablesFox NewsUnheard Author:David Frum
“Trudeau has to defend Canadian interests and values. But he has to do it in a way that doesn't say that Trump is stupid or outrageous or completely xenophobic - staying away from the epithets, and restricting his comments to areas where there's either false information, fake news, alternative facts, etcetera, about Canada.” WayFactsValuesInterestStupidInformationTrumpNewsAreasAlternativesFakeCanadaStayingCommentOutrageousEpithetEtcetera Author:Michael Kergin
“During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.” PresidentTrumpVictoryNewsStandingElectionMinistersPrimeReportersPrime MinisterBoastConferencesIsraeliAnti Semitic Author:Amy Goodman
“Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation.” IfsWorldEnoughWould BeMovingImaginePolicyTrumpNewsElectionInternationalFoolishIslamicImagine ThatPledgeBad NewsJerusalemProvocationEmbassy Author:Richard A. Falk
“[Donald Trump] puts a miner's hat on.The media, some in it, were concerned - or hoping - that Trump would have helmet hair when he took the helmet off. They were hoping that he had so much hair spray on, that the miner's helmet he was wearing would leave an indentation in his hair. That was actually a subject in some of the stories I read. So the MacGuffin... There's no media. There isn't any news.” StoriesSubjectsMediaHairTrumpNewsConcernedHatsSprayHelmetMiners Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their news from Facebook recommendations and believe in a particular set of facts. Others, who live in a different reality, know quite a different set of facts.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveDifferentFactsRealityParticularTrumpNewsFunctionRecommendationsDifferent Realities Author:Anne Applebaum
“While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.” PeopleTrumpNewsElectionFactorsVotersSuppressionHackingDemagogueryVoter Suppression Author:Riane Eisler
“News about the Russia connections to the [Donald Trump] administration and what we are continuing to learn about those connections. What`s getting to be, I think, particularly unsettling is that simultaneously we are right now what`s going on, I think, is that we are number one nailing down more direct connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government at the time the Russian government was influencing our election.” ThinkingGovernmentNumbersInfluenceTrumpRight NowNewsDirectConnectionsElectionCampaignsRussiaAdministrationContinuingRussian GovernmentContinuing To Learn Author:Rachel Maddow
“When you talk about President Trump, the cable networks turned over so many hours of prime time to him. Why? Because he was entertaining, but also because it drove ratings. And that is different from what the news media is supposed to focus on.” DifferentPresidentHoursFocusMediaTrumpNewsPrimeEntertainingCablesRatingNews MediaPrime Time Author:Al Gore
“This era in human existence where so much information is out there, it's easy for someone like Donald Trump to use that to make his claim that information is fake news. And there are people who think 'I guess we should believe the President when he says it's fake news.'” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveHumansUseEasyPresidentExistenceInformationTrumpNewsClaimsErasFakeHuman Existence Author:Greg Graffin
“We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.” WorldMeanLongTwoSeemsAbleLostPossibilityPlanetsTrumpDegreesNewsLong TimeIncreaseMarkCardsTriumphSensitiveGlobal WarmingStoppingTemperatureBad News Author:Bill McKibben