Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

All the news that fits we print.

Not every item of news should be published: rather those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

When there is a conflict between a [network] corporation and the needs of it’s news division, the corporate interest will win out.

Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what went above the fold and what went on page A10.

A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.

The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

In a bad year in this country, we have 600 people die in airplane crashes. We have 150 die a day in automobiles. Automobile accidents are simply not news. People are not reacting to them, unless you have a phenomenal accident where five or ten people are killed at once, and that will get to be big news. But you've got to concentrate it to produce the news. On the other hand, airplanes, a little bit like nuclear power, have an awesome safety record. And yet, a plane crash where 100 people are killed is news, not just locally but all over the world, quite literally. So the concentration of deaths is very important.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

NEWS is that which comes from North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.

The few ... being closely combined ... inploy no printers [journalists and writers] but those that will adhear strictly to their vuies and interests.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

'The Washington Post' doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. CNN doesn't have to report on what I post on Twitter. All kinds of media outlets - they don't have to report on anything that I post on Twitter. Just like they don't have to report on all kinds of other things that other people post on Twitter.