Dan Abrams Quotes

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You’ve got people on the one side saying, ‘We need to be holding our police accountable.’ And you’ve got a lot of people who support the police saying they’re being ‘unfairly vilified.’

The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the ‘opposition party,’ in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

As a citizen – or even a TV legal analyst – am I required to presume innocence, i.e., that the authorities arrest the wrong person in every case? Not a chance.

It was no easy feat becoming Dominick Dunne. Think about it. He was the most celebrated chronicler of downtrodden socialites. He feasted on their famine with little sympathy or admiration for their formerly exalted positions. Yet somehow they invited him back.

I’m not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we’re talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

Demanding that all of us presume every defendant innocent outside of a courtroom is to demand that we stop evaluating facts, thereby suffocating independent thought and opinion. There is nothing ‘reasonable’ about that.

But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

I am comfortable in my own skin.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

Growing up with a sister, someone I talk to all the time, helps me appreciate women.

I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here’s a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it’s yours.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I’m avoiding the issue of bias.

I would never have thought, when I was in my 20s, that I would be 44 and single.

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I’m awful.

I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

I have always been an amateur history buff, and I’ve been fascinated by legal history.

There’s no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative.

To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.

When you’re behind, you have to work harder. Women have had to work harder to get ahead, and now they are in a place where they are surpassing men.

While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.

I like the feeling that I’m on the right side of history.