J. P. Morgan Quotes

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

I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

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.

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

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

I only know what I read in the papers.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

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

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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.'

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The public are not stupid.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

The media is really failing the American people.

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

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