The Best of Notable Quotables; December 18, 1995
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 18, 1995
- Until Every Child Is Dead
- Damn Conservatives
- Republicans Make Us Sick
- Afraid of the Competition
- Purveyors of Hate and Division
- Mathematical Disabilities
- Embodiment of All Evil
- Good Morning Morons
- I Still Hate Reagan
- Media Hero
- Not Guilty of Bias
- Mean-Spirited Republican
- It's OK for Us to Hate Them
- Eleanor Clift Award
- Politics of Meaninglessness
- Which Way Is It?
- Dumbest Quote of the Year
- 1995 Award Judges
The 100 Percent Absolutely Not Guilty of Bias Award
“It’s
one of the great political myths, about press bias. Most reporters are
interested in a story. Most reporters don’t know whether they’re
Republican or Democrat, and vote every which way. Now, a lot of
politicians would like you to believe otherwise, but that’s the truth of
the matter. I’ve worked around journalism all of my life, Tom Snyder
has as well, and I think he’ll agree with this, that most reporters,
when you get to know them, would fall in the general category of kind of
common-sense moderates. And also, let me say that I don’t think that
‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’ means very much any more, except to those
kind of inside-the- Beltway people who want to use it for their own
partisan political advantage. I don’t think it holds up.”
– Dan Rather answering a caller about liberal bias, February 8 CBS’s Late Late Show with Tom Snyder.
Runners-up:
“I don’t think the coverage of Gingrich and the GOP Congress has been liberally biased.”
– ABC News
reporter Cokie Roberts on the CNBC special Meet the Media, October 23.
Question: “..The liberal bias of your network is obvious.”
ABC
News Washington anchor and reporter Carole Simpson: “I challenge you to
give me examples of that. I disagree wholeheartedly. I think it’s
again, an example of the mean- spiritedness that is these days also
directed at the media.”
– Exchange during January 5 America Online
session.
