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Wednesday 21st of January 2026

Advertising Another popular misconception is that newspapers tailor editorial lines to suit advertisers. … Generally, advertising matters less to newspapers since ad spending migrated online. In 2020, for the first time on record, US newspapers' revenues from circulation  exceeded advertising, reports Pew Research. Ads increased only in cable television, Fox’s domain. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, April 13, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Anti-science I don't believe it. Donald Trump, explaining why the 2018 National Climate Assessment report, which was prepared by 300 scientists in 13 federal agencies and predicts dire economic consequences of global warming, was released on Black Friday, when few people would hear about it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Assholes say I say that you're a terrible reporter. That's what I say. I think it's a very nasty question, and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people. Donald Trump, responding to NBC News reporter Peter Alexander, who gove him an opportunity to provide a reassurring and uplifiting message to Americans by asking him what his message was to millions of Americans “scared” by the COVID-19 coronavirus © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bad news According to estimates by the Pew Research Center, daily newspaper circulation in the US has fallen 17.9 per cent since 2015, as advertising revenues have dropped by almost $3.9bn. Newsroom staffing has been cut 11 per cent in that time, according to the US Bureau of Labor Specifics. citation Financial Times, July 22, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news The Alabama Senate last week approved a bill that would authorize Briarwood Presbyterian Church to create a police department for its campus. The state house is considering its own version of the bill. … The bill would vest officers of the church's police department with “all of the powers of law enforcement officers in this state,” including the powers to make arrests and use deadly force. citation Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Also, while Mr. Adelson's family was in talks to buy The Review-Journal, three of its reporters were asked to start monitoring three Nevada judges – one of whom is overseeing a lawsuit against Mr. Adelson. Subsequently, a small Connecticut paper owned by Mr. Schroeder, The New Britain Herald, published a critical article about the judge that appeared to use fabricated quotations and had the byline of a person who does not appear to exist. New York Times, December 28, 2015 [Adelson bought The Review-Journal through a shell company headed by Michael Schroeder, whose middle name and mother's maiden name make up the fictious reporter's name, Edward Clarkin] © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news American newspapers cut 45 percent of their newsroom staffs between 2008 and 2017, with many of the deepest cutbacks coming in the years after that. citation Margaret Sullivan, Ghosting the News  [2020] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bad news Apple, complying with what it said was a request from Chinese authorities, removed news apps created by The New York Times from its app store in China late last month. … The government began blocking The Times's websites in 2012, after a series of articles on the wealth amassed by the family of Wen Jiabao, who was then prime minister, but it had struggled in recent months to prevent readers from using the Chinese- language app. … Apple has not disclosed what laws the authorities said were violated, making it difficult for The Times and other publishers to file an appeal … citation New York Times, January 5, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news  As we lose people who produce facts, we are in danger of losing the very idea of truth. Timothy Snyder, Malady © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bad news As world leaders spent the weekend making final preparations for the G20 meeting in Germany this week, US president Donald Trump tweeted a doctored video of himself wrestling to the ground a man with a CNN logo for a head. citation Financial Times, July 3, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news The bad news isn't just bad. The bad news is terrible. citation Gov. Andrew Cuomo, April 8, 2020, on COVID-19 coronavirus in New York State © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bad news Blurring the line between advertising and content © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters – rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act. citation Donald Trump [hours later, Trump re-tweeted the message to say China's act was “unprecedented”] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Constant repetition of the bullshit that “the majority of Americans oppose Obamacare” when only 37% oppose it outright and 58% either strongly support it or oppose it for failing to create a “Medicare for all” system based on data from The Washington Spectator, January 1, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news David D. Smith, CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, avoided community service in 1996 in Baltimore for soliciting a prostitute by airing “news” segments about local drug counseling programs citation © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Desiree Fairooz was convicted last week for laughing during Jefferson Beauregard Sessions' confirmation hearing – a hearing in which the attorney general said under oath that he had had no contact with Russian officials during the elections, when he actually had. citation The Guardian, May 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Does Hillary Clinton drop off her pantsuits here? citation Jeanine Pirro, host of Justice with Judge Jeanine on Fox News and a wannabe reporter, yelling into a Chappaqua, NY, dry cleaners while searching for dirt on Hillary Clinton © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news Donald Trump can't tell fact from fiction © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Donald Trump can't tell a refugee from an immigrant © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Fox News masquerades as a defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy-Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny. citation Andrea Tantaros, in a lawsuit claiming she was demoted and smeared in the press after spurning sexual advances from Roger Ailes, then Fox News's Chairman and CEO © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news The free press joins Trump's enemies list, along with intelligence agencies, civil rights leaders, Meryl Streep, and non-absorbent hotel mattresses. citation Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, January 16, 2017, on reports Trump may evict reporters from their office in the White House, which they've had since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, because, according to his aide, “they're the opposition party” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news G20 plays down commitment to climate change action — — — — — — — — — — — Japan bows to US pressure and drops phrases used in previous communiqués headline, Financial Times, June 25, 2019 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Get reputable news organizations like The New York Times or The Washington Post to host our virus citation Game plan of secretly-funded alt-right media orgnizations like Breitbart News and Goverrnment Accountability Institute © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news I'd be careful about using the word “lie.” “Lie” implies much more than just saying something that's false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead. Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief, who prefers weasel words like “no evidence,” “challengeable” and “questionable” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. They sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community. citation Donald Trump, who has made hundreds of recorded and reported statements criticizing America's intelligence agencies, including comparing them to Nazis © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news I've made stuff up forever, and they always print it. citation Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news If a genetically handicapped Scientologist attempts to take the life of the vice- president of the 4H Club of Texas with a crossbow and someone knows about it, I would prefer that he keep it to himself. citation Fran Lebowitz, “No News Is Preferable” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news If it bleeds, it leads © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news If it's sleaze, it leads © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news If that's what it took, I'm glad they did it.  citation Trump supporter quoted in New York Times, January 7, 2017, commenting on Russian efforts to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news If the press would cover me accurately & honorably, I would have far less reason to “tweet.” Sadly, I don't know if that will ever happen! citation Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news If you have two guys on a stage and one guy says, “I have a solution to the Middle East problem” and the other guy falls in the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news? Roger Ailes on his “Orchestra Pit Theory” of political coverage in news media © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news If you want to make it in New York City in the TV business, you're going to have to fuck me, and you're going to do that with anyone I tell you to. citation Roger Ailes, to a television producer who he interviewed in 1975 and was quoted in the press in 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it  citation headline, Washington Post, August 10, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news  In the face of Trump's fact-free denials, who is reminding the public of the basics – that Russia attacked, and that Trump aided and abetted the operation? … When it comes to framing the overarching story, Trump pracitcally has a monopoly. citation David Corn, Mother Jones, June 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news It's much cheaper and easier to just report competing accusations. “Karl Rove says that the moon is made of cheese and stolen ballots and the ACLU says that's not totally accurate.” That's called a “balanced” report. Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news It's remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things. Bill Sammon, a Washington-based Fox executive, in a deposition in Dominion Voting System's lawsuit against Fox News © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bad news It's too late for any of us [journalists] to fix this colossal misread and  lapse in professional caution. Now all we can do is wait to see how much this failure of vision will cost the public we supposedly serve. Just like the politicians, our job was to listen, and we talked instead. Now America will do its own talking for a while. The world may never forgive us for not seeing this coming. Matt Taibbi, on the press's failure to understand the “rage storm” behind the 2016 presidential election © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Making “what your friends liked” a main criterion for distributing news © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Mr. Pruitt's office also began to send letters to federal regulators – including the E.P.A. and even President Obama – that documents obtained through open records requests show were written by energy industry lobbyists from companies including Devon Energy [a contributor to Pruitt's election campaigns]. Mr. Pruitt's straff put these ghostwritten letters on government stationery and then sent them to Washington, moves that the companies often then praised in their own news releases, without noting that they had actually drafted the letters in the first place. New York Times, December 7, 2016, on Scott Pruitt, Trump's choice to head the EPA, which both despise © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news Mnuchin Blocks U.C.L.A. From Releasing Video of Students Heckling Him  citation headline, New York Times, March 1, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news More than 800 journalists have been the subject of anti-Semitic attacks on Twitter, with 10 of them receiving 83 percent of the total attacks. The words appearing most frequently in the Twitter biographies of the attackers were “Trump,” “nationalist,” “conservative” and “white.” New York Times, October 19, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Most reporters accurately quote what they are told, but don't know much about the underlying issues. For Trump and others like him, this makes it easy to manipulate most of the press. Those who see through that manipulation and make connections themselves get a different response: complaints to editors, threats of litigation, and occassionally public denunciations. David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Much of the media framing of the Russia scandal has followed Trump's lead and adopted his collusion-centric perspective. The debate, such as it is, has become whether Trump directly collaborated with Moscow's covert operation– and whether Trump, as president, tried to thwart the investigation and obstruct justice. The story is not driven by the serious offenses already established: Trump and his associates encourged and assisted an attack from a foreign foe. citation David Corn, Mother Jones, June 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news NEW RULE: If one of your news organization's headlines is about who got kicked off Dancing with the Stars  last night, you're no longer a news organization. Sort of like, if you were on Dancing with the Stars  last night, you're no longer a star. citation Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news The New York Post for August 13, 2018, had full-page ads for Supreme, a maker of skateboard decks, on its front and back pages instead of news citation © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news The Next Farm Bust Is Coming — — — — — — — — — — — International competition, strong dollar drives Americans out of business, overflowing bunkers headline, Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news The odd thing about most of the reportage interpreting rural America is that it has nothing to do with the communities in which rural Americans live. It's all about private resentments and personal attitudes. It's as if rural Americans spent their time in isolation pondering only their pocketbooks. citation Robert Wuthnow, The Left Behind © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news One all-too-common response to such attacks [on the press for pointing out lies committed by a candidate] involves abdicating responsibility for fact-checking entirely, and replacing it with theater criticism: Never mind whether what the candidate said is true or false, how did it play? How did he or she “come across”? What were the “optics”? citation Paul Krugman © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news One of the things I'm goin to do if I win … I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun. In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it! citation  Donald Trump, February 13, 2021, after his second, historic acquital for high crimes and misdemeanors © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bad news Over the last five years, you people were so good over tax cuts, W.M.D. intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know, and you had the courtesy not to try to find out. citation Stephen Colbert, 2006 White House Correspondents' Association dinner © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Poll says that 53% believe media offen make mistakes  headline, San Diego Union-Tribune, July 12, 1998 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Release it late on a Friday © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news Right-wing claims that fact-checking is a left-wing conspiracy to censor the right and must be resisted at all costs © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news Senate confirms Scott Pruitt, preeminent pimp for polluters, as EPA administrator If water becomes undrinkable and air becomes unbreathable, blame him and his enablers: Lamar Alexander (R) Steve Daines (R) Johnny Isakson (R) Pat Roberts (R) John Barrasso (R) Mike Enzi (R) Ron Johnson (R) Mike Rounds (R) Roy Blunt (R) Joni Ernst (R) John Kennedy (R) Marco Rubio (R) John Boozman (R) Deb Fischer (R) James Lankford (R) Ben Sasse (R) Richard Burr (R) Jeff Flake (R) Mike Lee Tim Scott (R) Shelley Moore-Capito (R) Cory Gardner (R) Joe Manchin (D) Richard Shelby (R) Bill Cassidy (R) Lindsey Graham (R) Mitch McConnell (R) Luther Strange Thad Cochran (R) Chuck Grassley (R) Jerry Moran (R) Dan Sullivan (R) Bob Corker (R) Orrin Hatch (R) Lisa Murkowski (R) John Thune (R) John Cornyn (R) Heidi Heitkamp (D) Rand Paul (R) Thom Tillis (R) Tom Cotton (R) Dean Heller (R) David Perdue (R) Pat Toomey Mike Crapo (R) John Hoeven (R) Rob Portman (R) Roger Wicker (R) Ted Cruz (R) Jim Inhofe (R) James Risch (R) Todd Young American Electric Power (utility) Liberty 2.0 (energy industry super-PAC) American Fuel & Petrochemical Mfgrs (lobby) Lucas Oil Products (oil company) Americans for Prosperity (anti-EPA lobby) Murray Energy (coal copmany) Continental Resources (oil company) Oklahoma Gas & electric (utility) Devon Energy (oil and gas company) Oklahoma Strong Leadership (his super-PAC) KochPAC (Koch Industries PAC) Protecting America Now (anti-EPA lobby) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Senate Republicans and three Democrats – Joe Donnelly (IN), Heidi Heitkamp (SD)  and Joe Manchin (WV) – conspire to appoint Neil Gorsuch as Chief Injustice of the Supreme Court, deligitimizing themselves and it © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news A study once found that using the Fox News website as a news source made you less informed than watching no news at all. It's the Ozempic of knowing things. And still not as bad as the “news finds me” people.  That's the growing cohort of Americans who believe that if a story's important enough, it will find it's way to their social media feed. Yeah. These are the people who trust their  Facebook friends to watch Hannity for them. Bill Maher,  Real Time with Bill Maher, June 21, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Bad news These Dads Doing Ballet With Their Daughters Is the Only Thing You Need To Watch Today headline, Time Magazine, February 16, 2017  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news This is what makes covering Donald Trump so difficult: what does he mean when he says words? citation Zachary Wolf, CNN editor © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It's fake. citation headline, Washington Post, June 27, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Today I am keeping another promise to the American people by nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch of the United States Supreme Court to be of the United States Supreme Court. citation Donald Trump, January 31, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Trump sets tone for presidency with attack on ‘dishonest’ media — — — — — — — — — — — First news briefing stuns nation — Priebus says press want to ‘deligitimise’ president headline, Financial Times, January 23, 2017 [Reince Priebus is White House chief of staff] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news Two opposing sides don't necessarily have two compelling arguments. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke on that mall in the capital, and he didn't say, “Remember, folks, those southern sheriffs with the fire hoses and the German shepards, they have a point, too.” citation Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news Violent Creationist Greg Gianforte Wins Montana Special Election citation headline, patheos.com, May 26, 2017 [He funded a creationist dinosaur museum and was charged with assault for body- slamming and punching a reporter the day before the election] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news We don't seek to do good. We may inadvertently do good. We may inadvertently commit journalism. That is not the institutional intention. citation Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news We had total freedom in Vietnam. That, of course, made the Americans feel when the war finally came to an end that it was the media that let them down. They felt upset about that because they'd given us every facility and all they got in exchange was that public opinion turned against the war in Vietnam. So, if you go to Afghanistan now, you're totally controlled and never going to be allowed to take the kind of photographs I did in Vietnam of the real thing, the battle, the price of war, the suffering and the loss. So, the whole rule book has been rewritten and it doesn't come out in our favor. citation Don McCullin © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news We may soon be reaching a point in American journalism where foreign news is reserved in local newspapers for half a column on an inside page, a minute or two of television time on the local news, or a few lonely websites reserved for foreign policy specialists, nothing more. citation Marvin Kalb © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news We still see about half the population say they trust the news in some countries, especially in northern Europe, but it is clear that professional journalists, news media and technology companies are all viewed with considerable scepticism by most people in most countries. citation Reuters Institute's director of research, summarizing interviews of 70,000 people in 36 countries on 5 continents. Financial Times, June 22, 2017  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news A weak story with good film will beat out a good story with weak film. citation  David Halberstam, on television news  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news What do I know about it? All I know is what's on the Internet. on the Internet. citation Donald Trump, responding to a reporter who pointed out that law enforcement officials had investigated his claim that a man who rushed the stage at one of his rallies had ties to ISIS and found his claim to be untrue and the video he linked to to support it was a hoax © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bad news We will be back in some form . . . we will see you soon. citation Donald Trump, on his final day in office, telling a small crowd of supporters at Joint Base Andrews, before heading to Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Florida, that he wants the limelight again © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bad news Wow! in the sense of What The Fuck??? Nearly universal response, even among his supporters, to Donald Trump's hastily-called, seventy-seven minute, lie-laden and unhinged February 16, 2017, press conference © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news You nailed it! Period. citation Sean Spicer, Trump's press secretary, responding to a tweet from The Onion that said: .@SeanSpicer's role in the Trump administration will be to provide the American public with robust and clearly articulated misinformation. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Bad news You released a doctored video – actual fake news. History will not be kind to you. citation Matt Dornic, 3:52 AM – 8 Nov 2018, a CNN communication executive, commenting on Sarah Huckabee Sanders justifying withdrawing press credentials from CNN's White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, by releasing a doctored video that made it appear that Acosta had rapidly and repeatedly chopped down on the arm of a White House intern who Trump asked to take the microphone fgrom him after he asked questions that annoyed Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bad news You wake up early every day to comb your hair and pick out the brightest shirt/tie combo with your strongest pinstripe suit thinking this is going to be the year . . . then this happens. citation Orrin Hatch, 5:52 AM - 18 Apr 2018, octogenarian Senator from Utah, commenting on news that The Hill was discontinuing its annual list of the “50 Most Beautiful” people in Washington, DC © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I called the fake news the “enemy of the people” because they have no sources – they just make it up. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say We are committed to our customers and we never sought to deceive them in any way, nor would we ever. Spokesperson for Lord & Taylor, the department store, which settled with the Federal Trade Commission for running an article in a fashion magazine about one of its clothing collections without indicating the article was a paid ad, and which also failed to require social media influencers to disclose they had been paid to post photos of themselves wearing the clothes Quoted in Wall Street Journal, Dec. 29, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In the year leading up to Trump's election victory, the word “transgender” appeared  in the New York Times 1,169 times. The word “opioid” appeared just 284 times.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 13-14, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Nearly 80% of digital and print media stories about companies in crisis cited the CEO as a source of blame when the company's leader was a woman … That compared with 31% of stories assigning blame to male CEOs in stories about companies in similar situations. — Of the stories about female CEOs, 16% discussed the subject's personal life and 78% of those mentioned her family and children. By contrast, 8% of stories about male leaders touched on personal life, and none of them mentioned family and children. Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of questions readers of a Norwegian news site must answer correctly about an article before commenting: 3 Harper's Index, November 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers One dead in Putney equals 10 dead in Paris equals 100 dead in Turkey equals 1,000 dead in India equals 10,000 dead in China Saying among British journalists about what it takes to be front-page news © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of news stories about Donald Trump during his first sixty days that were positive: 5 Harper's Index, January 2018 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Preferred sources for election news according to Pew Research Center ALL voters TRUMP's CLINTON's Fox News 19% Fox News 40% CNN 18% CNN 13% CNN 8% MSNBC 9% Facebook 8% Facebook 7% Facebook 8% Local TV 7% NBC 6% Local TV 8% NBC 6% Local TV 5% NPR 7% MSNBC 6% ABC 3% ABC 6% ABC 5% CBS 3% NY Times 5% NPR 4% Locl radio 3% CBS 5% CBS 4%     NBC 4% NY Times 3%     Locl papers 4% Locl papers 3%     Fox News 3%  Financial Times, January 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Social-media sites such as Facebook and Twitter Inc. shoulder “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of responsibility for preventing the distribution of fake news, according to 71% of the U.S. adults polled [by Pew Research]. Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say You should say, “Congratulations, great job,” instead of being so horrid in the way you ask a question. Donald Trump. responding to a Fox News reporter who asked about the delay in getting COVID-19 tests at hospitals nationwide © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say “@backupwraith: i firmly believe that @realDonaldTrump is the most superior troll on the whole of twitter, that is all.” A great compliment!  Donald Trump, 1:05 AM – 24 Apr 2013 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Better to get your news directly from the President [Trump]. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth. Lamar Smith, Tea Party Republican © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The defendants' actions were motivated by a personal vendetta and a desire to gain fame, notoriety, acclaim and a financial windfall and were further intended to advance their political agenda. The brazenness of the defendants' actions cannot be understated. From page one of Donald Trump's lawsuit against Mary Trump, the New York Times and its three reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on his history of tax dodges — for “no less” than than $100 million each © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Journalists are enemies of the American people  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say We don't trust American journalists, they just make things up. citation Ralph Drollinger, leader of Capitol Ministries, the group leading Bible studies classes in the White House and both houses of Congress, explaining why he granted an interview to Germany's Welt am Sonntag but not to major American media outlets © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say You have some very good reporters, you have some very fair journalists. But for the most part, these are really, really dishonest people. They're bad people and I really think they don't like our country. I really believe that. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Decision making Collective preferences tend to be solid. They tend to reflect the underlying needs and values of the whole body of citizens, in light of the best available information from experts and commentators. … [An] important caveat is that collective opinion sometimes does not reflect the best available information because individuals' errors do not always “cancel out.” This is particularly true if systemic misinformation is fed to many Americans at once and is not effectively contradicted. Examples include “fake news” transmitted by social media or … presidents or … executive branch officials who have a near monopoly on intelligence sources. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democracy Democracy Dies In Darkness The Washington Post's tagline © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fascists say The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work.  Steve Bannon © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fascists say The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while. I want you to quote this: The media here is the opposition party. Steve Bannon, in an interview with the New York Times © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fascists say  Not one network person has been let go. Not one political analyst and pundit who talked smack all day long about Donald Trump has been let go. Kellyanne Conway, a.k.a. “Propaganda Barbie,” lamenting that critics of Trump haven't been fired yet © 2017 Kwiple.com
Fox News Our job is not to provide news coverage. Not even close. Our job is to explain what things mean. Tucker Carlson, January 6, 2021,  to a Fox News colleague who expressed concern about the effects of lies about election fraud that Fox News hosts had repeatedly spread on air in the days leading up to January 6 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Good news Bill O'Reilly, self-righteous bloviator, racist and sexual predator, kicked off the air after 22 years perched atop Fox News  April 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Good news But the incentive to go soft on Mr Trump is shrinking. He probably won't be president in six months. He is not so much lame duck as a clay pigeon, there to help journalists prove their marksmanship. Henry Mance, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Good news But the production of killer zombie mice is not on the agenda. Financial Times, January 13, 2017, in a report about potential uses of technology developed by Yale University researchers to turn on and off the neurons in mice brains that control hunting, subduing and killing prey and inanimate mobile plastic toys © 2017 Kwiple.com
Good news I think nothing is the end of the world until it is the end of the world. Barack Obama © 2016 Kwiple.com
Good news The report found a significant jump in the numbers of people prepared to pay for online news, particularly among those aged 35 and under. Financial Times, June 22, 2017, on Reuters' Digital News Report 2017 based on interviews of 70,000 people in 36 countries on 5 continents. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Good news The Russia story will get worse and worse and you can't just really say anymore, “fake news.” An unnamed Trump adviser quoted by Politico, July 11, 2017, after Donald Trump, Jr. released emails proving the Trump campaign's willingness to collude with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Good news This is the Netherlands, you have to answer questions. Dutch journalists to Peter Hoekstra,  the new U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, who repeatedly refused to answer questions about his unfounded claims of rampant Muslim violence in Europe and the Netherlands © 2018 Kwiple.com
Good news Tiki Brand is not associated in any way with the events that took place in Charlottesville and are deeply saddened and disappointed. We do not support their message or the use of our products in this way. Tiki Brand press release bemoaning the use of Tiki torches – intended to decorate backyard parties – by white supremacists and neo-Nazis marching at nighttime through Charlottesville, Virginia  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Good news Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day — — — — — — — — — — — It's known as the “propaganda document” citation headline, Vice News, August 9, 2017 [it's also known as the “flattery folder”] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Good news Trump hasn't started a war … yet July 25, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Good news We will follow five principles: we will develop ideas that help improve the world, not just critique it; we will collaborate with readers, and others, to have greater impact; we will diversify, to have richer reporting from a representative newsroom; we will be meaningful in all of our work; and, underpinning it all, we will report fairly on people as well as power and find things out. Katherine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, defining the principles guiding its reporting © 2017 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say You guys love it. Now, I'm not saying that you love the tragedy.  But I am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you and many in the legacy media in the back. Dana Loesch, NRA's national spokesperson, addressing reporters at the 2018 CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference] shortly after 17 were killed and 14 wounded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun violence For the weary White House, Florida shooting offered a ‘reprieve’ from scandals  headline, Washington Post, February 19, 2018, referring to Trump White House officials admitting to feelings of temporary relief because press coverage of the killings at Marjory Stoneham Dedham High School in Parkland, Florida, pushed reports of spousal abuse by White House officials, Cabinet secretaries charging taxpayers for luxury travel, Trump's affair with a Playboy centerfold, Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in our elections, Jared Kushner and other White House officials lacking permanent security clearances, etc. from the front pages © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. Barack Obama, after a gunman killed nine people at an Oregon college in October, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Journalism False equivalence is not a legitimate journalistic practice. In those cases, we have to take a stand. We should not be neutral. Jorge Ramos, calling for journalists to ignore “both-sides-are-equal” coverage in cases of corruption, dictatorship, discrimination, human rights, public lies and racism © 2016 Kwiple.com
Journalism The future of news has three mandates: digital first, video first, mobile first. Jorge Ramos © 2016 Kwiple.com
Journalism I can’t think of a profession that relies more on osmosis, and just being around other people, than journalism. … the best journalism school is overhearing journalists doing their jobs. Mark Leibovich © 2023 Kwiple.com
Journalism I just returned from visiting China for the first time since Covid struck. Being back in Beijing was a reminder of my first rule of journalism: If you don't go, you don't know. Thomas Friedman, New York Times, April 14, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Journalism I...worked on this story for a year... and...he just...he tweeted it out. Like. I spent hours and days and weeks and months. And his son just, hit tweet. I tracked down sources. Followed so many dead leads. Labored over this. And then he just, you know, tweeted out the proof. Like, so many people out there were trying to track this down. And it just... got delivered on a tweet. What the hell. Jared Yates Sexton, independent journalist, July 11, 2017, tweets after Donald Trump, Jr. released emails proving the Trump campaign's williingness to collude with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Journalism Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations. George Orwell © 2019 Kwiple.com
Journalism No matter where you stand  in the cable-news wars, Trump is a lucrative story. Amanda Hess, New York Times Magazine, October 6, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Journalism Our credo must be the exposure of the plunderers, the steerers, the wirepullers, the bosses, the brokers, the campaign givers and takers … So I say: Stew, percolate, pester, track, burrow, besiege, confront, damage, level, care. Wayne R. Barrett, investigative reporter who died one day before Trump's inauguration, on his prayer card © 2017 Kwiple.com
Journalism The problem in journalism is not that people are writing for free. It is that people are writing for free for companies that are making a profit. Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Journalism The skeptical credo of the investigative reporter: If your mother says she loves you, check it out. David Cay Johnston © 2016 Kwiple.com
Journalism Studiously mindful of traditional norms of objectivity and balance, they retreat from interpretation back to what seems more uncontentious information: the old “you write what the man says.” But symmetrical coverage in situations of asymmetrical polarization — where only one party has turned against fundamental democratic rules or is misleading the public systematically about basic facts — turns into distortion. The effects of a self-consciously neutral stance are not neutral. Jan-Werner Müller, Democracy Rules, on some journalists' reaction to incessant criticism for being anti-Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
Journalism We are detectives for the people. Wayne R. Barrett, telling elementary school childen what investigative journalists do © 2017 Kwiple.com
Journalism  We know where the audience is going. There is a huge migration of eyes from TV to the small screens on your cellphones. So we have to go there. But here's a big problem. We don't know how to make money on social media. Jorge Ramos © 2016 Kwiple.com
Journalism  While information may want to be free, journalists need to be paid. David Chavern, CEO of News Media Alliance © 2020 Kwiple.com
Journalism Your journalist at the worst is an artist in his way: he daubs paint of this kind upon the lily with a professional zeal; the more flagrant (or, to use his own word, arresting) the pigment, the happier is his soul. Like the Babu he is trying all the while  to embellish our poor language, to make it more floriferous, more poetical — like the Babu for example who, reporting his mother’s death, wrote, ‘Regret to inform you, the hand that rocked the cradle has kicked the bucket.’ Arthur Quiller-Couch, "V. Interlude: On Jargon"  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Journalism You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that  when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you. Donald Trump to Leslie Stahl, who asked him, while taping for 60 Minutes, why he continually attacks the press © 2021 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary fake news (fāk no̅o̅z), n. To Trump supporters and conservatives, news accounts that cast doubts on them, their claims or their agenda; to others, phony news accounts meant to be spread virally via social media © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary news (no̅o̅z), n. Information that reinforces or reaffirms previously held beliefs. © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Take me to your reader © 2016 Kwiple.com
Lies In all democracies, politicians occasionally lie to cover up scandals or exaggerate their legislative accomplishments. In the United States, the rise of the right-wing news media in recent decades has tempted politicians to play to their own supporters without worrying whether their rhetoric is inflammatory or fair. But the construction of an alternate reality that obviates the very possibility of conducting politics on the basis of truth is a novelty in this country. And it is increasingly becoming obcious that it will serve a clear purpose: to prepare the ground for egregious violations of basic democratic norms. Yascha Mounk, New York Times, December 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Local news Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was impeached Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the third president to be impeached in United States history – and the first from Queens. Queens Daily Eagle, Dec. 19, 2019, p. 16 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Local news If news becomes distant, the next step is that news becomes fake. Timothy Snyder © 2021 Kwiple.com
Local news Six percent of all U.S. counties have no paper; 46 percent have only one paper, usually a weekly, and 64 percent have no daily paper. “Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century,” Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship © 2022 Kwiple.com
Luck For journalists who cover conflict zones, luck is like a blind trust fund. You can make withdrawals, but not deposits, and you never know how much is left. Allen Pizzey © 2017 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Being an editorial cartoonist © 2017 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Being a journalist © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Publishing a newspaper © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Business models based on copyright infringement © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Raising fake news stories on a meme farm © 2016 Kwiple.com
News For all the angst about polarisation and disinformation, something very different is in fact going on in news consumption: the mass-media age is ending.  We’re returning to a time when most people get almost no news. Growing numbers of citizens are oblivious to current affairs, much like most ordinary Britons before  the first popular newspaper, the Daily Mail, appeared in 1896 … We marvel at Russians, switched off and immobilised while their government commits horrors. That could be us very soon. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, March 21, 2023 © 2024 Kwiple.com
News News today, news is gossip, that's what it is. Cindy Adams, gossip columnist,  quoted in New York Times, December 26, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
News  Starting about the eighties, we began to confuse news with entertainment. We merged the two. Timothy Snyder © 2021 Kwiple.com
Newspapers After all, a newspaper's purpose isn't only to keep public officials accountable; it is also to be the village square for an entire metropolitan area; to help  provide a common reality and touchstone; a sense of community and of place. citation Margaret Sullivan, Ghosting the News  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Newspapers The decline of advertising gradually turned the newspaper industry “from monopoly to franchise to competitive,” the billionaire chief officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. [Warren Buffett] said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. And now most newspapers are “toast.” Bloomberg News, April 23, 2019 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Newspapers When a new dictator takes over a country, one of the first things he does is seize or close the newspapers.  Apathy isn't as heavy-handed as a dictator. But it can get the same job done. Mike Royko, Chicago News, March 4, 1978 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Objectivity The goal of objectivity is not to give equal time between truth and falsehood – it is to facilitate the truth. Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth © 2019 Kwiple.com
Polarization The U.S. is the outlier, in the sense that we are the one case without a major public broadcaster. In Norway, Sweden, Germany, the U.K., and Japan, on the other hand, the public broadcaster is the dominant  media source commanding huge audiences. By definition, public broadcasters are committed to nonpartisan journalism, meaning that citizens are exposed to fact- based reporting rather than commentary. Shanto Iyengar © 2023 Kwiple.com
Politics … if you don't say something provocative, you don't get covered at all. Roger Stone,  the GOP's “king of dirty tricks,” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Politics When we talk about the process, then, we are talking, increasingly, not about “the democratic process,” or the general mech- anism affording the citizens of a state a voice in its affairs, but the reverse: a mech- anism seen as so specialized that access to it is correctly limited to its own professionals, to those who manage policy and those who report on it, to those who run the polls and those who quote them, to those who ask and those who answer the questions on Sunday shows, to the media consultants, to the col- umnists, to the issues advisers, to those who give the off-the-record breakfasts and those who attend them; to that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life. Joan Didion, “Insider Baseball” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage A little over a month after his inauguration, on Feb. 28, 2017, President Trump signed HJ Resolution 40, a bill that made it easier for people with mental illness to obtain guns. CBS News then asked the White House to release the photograph of Mr. Trump signing the bill, making the request a total of 12 times. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders finally responded to repeated emails and phone calls with a one-line note on April 19, 2017, writing to CBS News, “We don't plan to release the picture at this time.” CBS News. February 15, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse  Tread very fucking lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me? Michael Cohen, to a reporter  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Publicity stunt Smack in the middle of his cockamie interview with The Times last week, Ivanka dropped by the Oval Office so that her daughter, Arabella, could give Grandpa a kiss. How precious. How humanizing. How entirely choreographed. Frank Bruni, New York Times, July 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Yes, I agree. Except to use your metaphor, I don't think it's the last inning. I think it's the last pitch. David Rothkopf responding to Lawrence O'Donnell, who, while interviewing him on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on January 24, 2022, said: “There is another problem with Washington news media coverage, which is, if they were baseball reporters, the way they would cover the game is the winner is whoever won the last inning. So everything Joe Biden did in the first, second, third, fourth innings of year one is forgotten when Build Back Better runs into the roadblock in the Senate and then voting rights runs into the filibuster roadblock in the Senate.” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say Lügenpresse Nazi word meaning “lying press” used by alt-righters to describe mainstream media covering Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say They've [the media] let her [Hillary Clinton] slide on every discrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing. If the Republicans were doing that, they'd be warming up the gas chamber right now. Donald Trump, Jr., proving he's also a sleeper at the wheel © 2016 Kwiple.com
Religion When a thousand people believe some made-up story for a month – that's fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years – that's a religion. Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Bash the press © 2016 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Make America fact-check again Placard, New York City Women's March, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say This is real news Placard, Columbia, South Carolina, Women's March, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
The  scandal In 2016, Vladimir Putin's regime mounted information warfare against the United States, in part to help Trump become pres- ident. While this attack was underway, the Trump crew tried to collude covertly with Moscow, sought to set up a secret communications channel with Putin's office, and repeatedly denied in public that this assault was happening, providing cover to the Russian operation. Trump and his lieutenants aligned themselves with and assisted a foreign adversary, as it was attacking the United States. The evidence is rock-solid: They committed a profound act of betrayal. That is the scandal. David Corn, Mother Jones, June 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm the guy who wanted them out of the building. Steve Bannon, taking responsibility for the proposal to remove the press briefing room from the White House © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie  I know things I don't want to know – like how small a body gets when it is burned to death. Marie Colvin, war correspondent  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie It doesn't matter to me what people say to me in the interview because I don't trust it. Joan Didion © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interest. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion, Preface to Slouching Towards Bethlehem © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie Quite often during the past several years I have felt myself a sleepwalker, moving through the world unconscious of the moment's high issues, oblivious to its data, alert only to the stuff of bad dreams … Acquaintances read The New York Times,  and try to tell me the news of the world. I listen to call-in shows. Joan Didion, “In the Islands” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I never claimed to be a journalist. Sean Hannity © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I hope that if you watch my show, [you'll acquire a set of] good, true stories about what's going on and why it matters. Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I never, ever cheated. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. That is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important. Rand Paul © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I cannot compete with Facebook, with Twitter, with Instagram and Youtube. I simply can't. And I just can't for a very simple reason: most likely someone with a cellphone will be there, and I won't. Jorge Ramos, self-described “dinosaur” anchor of a regularly-scheduled TV news program © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm just a journalist who asks questions. I'm just an active journalist. Jorge Ramos when asked whether he's an activist or a journalist © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie One of the greatest of all terms I've come up with is “fake.” Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Journalism is content © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Prior to the election, it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world. Only the crooked media makes this a big deal! Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say What's in the newspapers worth worrying about? George W. Bush © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I'd never kill them. … But I do hate them. Some of them are such lying, disgusting people. Journalists portrayed by Donald Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What Mr Trump has in common with Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, is less ideology than a bone-deep aversion to being disliked. Tellingly, their nationalism tends not to appeal to duty and sacrifice as much as a can-do bullishness. It makes them both world-class boosters. And reluctant bearers of bad news. Donald Trump portrayed by Janan Ganesh, March 25, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot With all due respect to the office you hold, Mr. President, the “enemy of the people” is not the press. It is you. Donald Trump portrayed by Marvin Kalb © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot  He doesn't even care who he pisses off. He just sends out a tweet so that he controls the news cycle. Sometimes, guys? You ignore him. Donald Trump portrayed by Amy Klobuchar, talking to reporters © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Some politicians don't answer the question. Mr. Trump can't answer the question. Henry Mance, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Social media The cliché used to be that people had moved to social media for news. Well, they have moved to social media, but increasingly not for news.  After all, why let journalists you don’t trust tell you about politicians you don’t trust? Meta says news now accounts for under 3 per cent of what users see on its biggest platform, Facebook. Instagram, too, has deprioritised news. TikTok won’t even show political adverts. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, March 21, 2023 © 2024 Kwiple.com
State of the union Peeping-tom, gotcha journalists and telephoto-toting sidekicks are the people's choice, by far © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union To have a professional politician beat up on a reporter — this is the kind of thing you would see in a totalitarian state. This is not America. Lucy Dalglish, dean of the journalism school at the University of Maryland © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest  All I know is what I read in the papers © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Fair and Balanced citation Fox News slogan © 2015 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest  The president is an incredible advocate of the First Amendment. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, getting the “incredible” part right when asked about Trump's call for the Senate Intelligence Committee to look into what he calls “fake news” broadcast he claims by NBC and other “Fake News Networks” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Unlike you and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.  Donald Trump, addressing reporters about the Charlotteville, Virginia, riot © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surveillance Today, journalists in dozens of countries broke the story that military-grade surveillance technology, initially believed to be used for criminals and terrorists, was weaponized against journalists, political rivals, activists and lawyers from around the world. The revelation of this misuse of Pegasus, a surveillance software licensed and sold by the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, has stirred outrage and calls for the spyware to be better regulated by global governments. Maddowblog, July 19, 2021 [Pegasus is “zero click” spyware]  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Using algorithms to generate videos of people saying things they never said and conveying facial expressions for emotions they never felt that are so realistic humans can't detect the fakery poses no threat of more fake news; no threat of more people being subjected to character assassination; no threat of more people believing that everybody lies all the time; no threat to national security; no threat to democracy --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Technology To put the matter bluntly, if we had the polarized politics of today  but the information technology of the 1950s, we almost certainly would not have seen the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, at the United States Capitol. Millions of Republican voters would  probably not have believed the false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and demanded from state legislatures new restrictive voting rules and fake election “audits” to counter phantom voter fraud. Richard Hasen, New York Times, March 7, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think “critical race theory.” We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans. Christopher F. Rufo, 3:17 PM – Mar 15, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I was surprised to hear there was anything negative in the Mueller report at all about president Trump. I hadn't heard that before. I mainly listen to conservative news and I hadn't heard anything negative about that report and that president Trump had been exonerated. Attendee at May 28, 2019, town hall meeting held by Representative Justin Amash, the first Republican member of Congress to declare Trump should be impeached for obstructing justice © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Maybe it is time to change the traditional relationship the press will have with the White House. In this day and age of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, does Trump really need to be granting access to biased journalists that openly oppose him? Sean Hannity © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say My message tonight to the press is simple: You guys are done. You've been exposed as fake, as having an agenda, as colluding. You're a fake news organization. Sean Hannity, Fox News host, responding to CNN reporting that Trump's claim that millions of illegal votes were cast in 2016 was baseless, which it was © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does. Dennis Prager, 10:55 AM – 14 Jul 2017 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Truth We don't have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true. Facebook, defending its decision to not take down a video created by Trumpists that depicts Nancy Pelosi as drunk and that its fact checkers labeled as “false” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War Vietnam was a place where the elite went as reporters, not as soldiers. Almost as many people from Harvard won Pulitzer Prizes in Vietnam as died there. David Halberstam © 2017 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I know all of them. I don't know if they're sitting like you people are sitting. You're actually sitting too close. We should probably get rid of another 75, 80 percent of you. I'll have just 2 or 3 that I like in this room. Donald Trump, to the smaller-then-usual-number of reporters maintaining social distancing at his COVID-19 coronovirus briefings in the press briefing room © 2020 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say Stick with us. Don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. Donald Trump, telling veterans he and his kiss-asses are the sole source of truth about trade and other issues © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say They spend a couple of days in jail, make a new friend, and they are ready to talk. Donald Trump on findiing leakers by jailing journalists, as quoted in James Comey's 2/14/17 memo © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
Work In today’s economy, few workers get to be judged on output that is discrete and identifiably theirs (such as a newspaper column). More often, they are among the many contributors to a rolling and amorphous process: a corporate merger, say, or IT maintenance. One effect is that, in all candour, I have no idea what most of you do. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, October 2, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com