Megan Fox Quotes

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

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

Television’s a funny thing. You can be edited in ways that makes you appear to say what you didn’t say.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming.