Brian Stelter Quotes

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Brian Stelter

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 3, 1985

Trump prides himself on being an intimidator.

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The Trump White House has employed several different strategies for sidestepping uncomfortable questions. There has been a rightward tilt at press conferences and briefings. At Q&A sessions with foreign heads of state, Trump has bypassed the country's biggest newsrooms and called on reporters from conservative outlets instead.

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Biden's first day, and Psaki's first day, sent a message that functional government is back.

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I keep hearing from readers who say 'Hoax' helps them understand their own family a little bit better.

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Many people dismiss morning television as fluff, but the morning hours are where the money is.

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As more and more Americans spend their earliest hours scrolling through news alerts and weather forecasts on their smartphones and tablets, morning shows have to adapt, too. And their biggest competitive advantage may be that, unlike an iPhone, they offer some form of companionship.

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Journalists have to call out and correct the lies and smears polluting the air waves.

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These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.

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Of course, 'Fox & Friends' is more of an entertainment product than a newscast. The show's viewers know that the morning show promotes Trump and his agenda. Most of Trump's interviews are with boosterish shows like this.

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What I always tell people about Trump, or Kellyanne Conway, or Sarah Sanders, is that when you are interviewing these people, it is really more about the interviewer than the interviewee. What I mean by that is that the interviewer has to be ready to interrupt, fact-check, challenge, rebut.

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The Fox-Trump feedback loop is unlike anything we've seen in media before.

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Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

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Trump's Fox News fixation was a major theme of his presidency. He hired people from Fox, fired people because of Fox, and gave most of his national TV interviews to Fox. Sometimes it was hard to tell where Trump ended and Fox began.

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Fox is Trump's safe space. It's where he's not going to be humiliated, where he's not going to hear uncomfortable truths.

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Fox is described as a news operation, a news network, but it's also a political operation.

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Sean Hannity operates at Fox News with few rules. He seemingly says and does whatever he wants, even when it embarrasses his own colleagues.

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Trump's words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.

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When I watch Tucker's show, I hear - you're going to think I'm crazy - I hear 2024 campaign monologues. That's what I sometimes hear him doing, thinking about what is the post-Trump GOP.

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Trump might think that Fox needs his star power, and on the margins it's true that Trump appearances and interviews are right-wing ratings boosters. But the network was No. 1 long before he became a politician.

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The greatest hoax of all of the Trump years is that Donald Trump has convinced one-third of the country not to believe not anything but Sean Hannity and Fox and Trump.

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