Bob Woodward Media Quotations

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

Roger Ailes, former media guru for Bush's father, had a message. Rove told the president. It had to be confidential because Ailes, a flamboyant and irreverent media executive, was currently the head of Fox News Channel, the conservative-leaning television cable network that was enjoying high ratings. In that position, Ailes was not supposed to be giving political advice.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

It's very important that people trust the media.