Huey Long Quotes

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

So you're from the press? Well, your newspapers can all go to hell. You lied yesterday and you're getting ready to lie again today. Go climb down my back.

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

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

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

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

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....

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

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

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

Don't believe the fake media.

Obviously, I agree with Trump on many of his criticisms of the mainstream media. You can absolutely argue that their failure to report honestly, to get outraged before we could, and to collude with the Clinton campaign directly led to the rise of Trump.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

You can actually make your own Trump policies by going through the incinerator at the Daily Mail and picking through the dust for anything they thought might get them prosecuted.

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

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 wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.