H. L. Mencken Quotes

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

People see whatever the media first reports.

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

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Don't believe the fake media.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

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

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

News isn't even the truth on television.

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.