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Quotes About Media

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.
~ David Brock
The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.
~ Bill Maher
Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.
~ Larisa Alexandrovna
I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.
~ Bob Dylan
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
~ Alain de Botton
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
~ Henry Reed
I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.
~ Barbara Boxer
The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.
~ Niecy Nash
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.
~ Ashton Kutcher
A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.
~ Craig Newmark
I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.
~ Donald Trump
At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
~ Doris Lessing
No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.
~ Greg Egan
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
~ Honore de Balzac
I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
~ Jack White
If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.
~ Jill Abramson
We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.
~ John F. Kerry
Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.
~ Josh Tickell
In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.
~ Kevin Drum
People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.
~ Laurie Simmons
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
~ Ron Suskind
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
~ Tom Brokaw
When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.
~ Travis Tygart
Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth.
~ Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt