Quotes About Media

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment, too. It guarantees my free speech as it does their freedom of the press… There is room for all of us – and for our divergent views – under the First Amendment.

It used to be that the longest unprotected border in the world was that between the United States and Canada. Today it's the one between fact and fiction. If the two cozy up any closer together The National Enquirer will be out of business.

An apparently good way to get more information about religious group would be through the media. In actual fact, it's probably the worst. Why? Because what makes hot news stories are things like controversy, opposing views, harm, blood, sex, big names, big money, scandal, ect.

Den Blick in die Welt kann man mit einer Zeitung versperren.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

An Open Letter to the Media re Unrealistic Portrayal of Life Screw you.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

The media—stenographers to power.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.