Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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

The failure of a free press in most countries is usually blamed on the readers. Every nation gets the government--and the press--it deserves. This is too facile a remark. The people deserve better in most governments and press. Readers, in millions of cases, have no way of finding out whether their newspapers are fair or not, honest or distorted, truthful or colored.

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.'

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

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

A lot of things the press say are nonsense.

The ferociousness of some of the media is shocking.

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

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

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.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The media's job is to question a premise.

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