Mark Twain Quotes

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

In political advertising, truth only has an advantage when a credible source makes it known.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

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....

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

When I first started out, I really felt like, 'I'm a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.' And I don't feel like that holds true anymore. I don't think people respect journalists the same way they once did.

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.

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

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

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

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Many people no longer trust major media outlets to give them valuable information - and they may never do so again.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

What I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera, on air, are not particularly believed and quite often not true. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.