Quotes About Truth

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Fake News has become a matter of concern in the country.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

There's no such thing as good news in America.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

A lot of people don't want to get bad news.

Fox News is garbage.

With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

Of course, I'm not saying that news interviews can't be adversarial. Sometimes, you have to be nasty Columbo or we'd never get to the truth.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

Every cable news channel was a very big business success before Donald Trump started lying about Barack Obama's birth certificate. And they were all making more money than they knew what to do with then and more money than Donald Trump has ever seen in his life.

I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media.

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.

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.