Joey Skaggs Quotes

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

There are things that go public, and everything that comes out is not the truth.

Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

I know every politician spins the truth a little.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

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.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.