George Orwell Quotes

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

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The press is the enemy.

News isn't even the truth on television.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

Nobody believes an official spokesman. Everybody believes an unnamed source.

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.

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's the truth.

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.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

I am the man who keeps his words.

With Paul Levesque and the conversations we have had I've found him to be a straight shooter and everything he said with me he kept his word 100%.

A lot of things the press say are nonsense.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

The media doesn't have credibility.