Ernest Bevin Quotes

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.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.

They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do. I never like it when they tell me that, and I'm sure they're right, but when people say things that are fabrication - you know, there were fabricated stories made up, these were fabrications. Out of nowhere.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

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

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

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

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. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

… yellow journalism

'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.