George Orwell Quotes

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

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

Look, conspiracy theories are so much more interesting than the truth. But the last time I checked, Fox still has the word 'news' in its name.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

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.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

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

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

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.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

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.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.