Quotes About Media

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

The truth is the best propaganda.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Life must have sucked growing up without TV." "Back then people could wait a few days to learn about all the things they couldn't control. . . Nowadays we're much more impatient for our impotence.

Our new media are well suited for accomplishing the rudimentary. And because this is what technology serves up, we reduce our expectations of each other.

In 1979 Susan Sontag wrote, "Today, everything exists to end in a photograph." Today, does everything exist to end online?

when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections.

She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.

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I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

To be hoisted onto laps, pinched by incredulous strangers, to occasionally get my curls tugged, to be cooed at, photographed, and quoted -all this was part of the job.