Brian Stelter Quotes

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Brian Stelter

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 3, 1985

For all the talk about, and appeals to, Trump fans who wanted to watch the press corps bullied and bashed, most Americans don't want that. They never did. Most Americans want to know what is real and true so that they can make the best decisions for their families.

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What Fox News has become in 2020 is a conclusion of decades of right wing media and rhetoric against the rest of the media. In the '90s it was about media bias. In the 2000s it was about media bias. Now, the rhetoric is so much more extreme. It's about enemies of the people.

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There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

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Bill O'Reilly truly was always going to go to Italy when the scandal erupted about his secret settlements with women that accused him of harassment. So he decided to go on the vacation that he already scheduled, and then of course, he never came back.

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History suggests that big corporate maneuvers tend to coincide with changes in morning-TV fortunes, either because the new managers tinker with the product or fail to take it seriously.

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Trump lies a whole lot more than Joe Biden or any other Democratic politician.

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To be sure, every White House tries to limit its exposure to difficult and distracting questions. The Obama administration was scrutinized for its use of late night shows and YouTube chats to get the president's message across in low-risk situations.

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I suppose my attitude is what's most important is that we surround the president's misleading information with accurate information and help people know what is true 'cause I think the biggest trend of the Trump years is that people are increasingly confused about what is real and what is made-up.

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I never covered Barack Obama watching ESPN at night, because he wasn't making life or death choices based on the basketball games.

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Trump has broken the news system because he has found ways to go out there, get attention, say a lot of things that are untrue and confuse the public.

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Trump granted pardons because of Fox... He raged against migrant 'caravans' because of Fox. He accused public servants of treason because of Fox. And he got the facts wrong again and again because of mistakes and misreporting by the network.

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One of the principles of White House coverage is that a wide variety of news outlets should be represented at briefings and press conferences.

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Donald Trump has shouted 'hoax' hundreds of times, about everything from climate change to Supreme Court rulings to impeachment.

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I think it's clear that Trump is usually in a reactive mode, reacting to what he sees and hears on Fox.

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Trump's war on the nation's news media, his war on truth, his war on reality ultimately caused him to become the first U.S. president to be impeached two times.

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Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He's blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form of President Trump.

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It's incredible that Apple is launching a streaming service with an ode to broadcast TV.

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I am glad that 'Hoax' came out a couple weeks before Bob Woodward's book. We both have these one word titles. His is 'Rage,' mine is 'Hoax.' They do make for a great pairing, and I'm not saying that as a sales pitch!

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The leaders of Fox News will never say this out loud, but they believe that their media empire is bigger than President Trump.

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You shouldn't fear your audience, you should serve your audience, serve them the truth.

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