Paul Simon Quotes

I have a saddened and weakening attitude toward the media and press.

The expressions of newspapers, like those of orators, could not be accepted without allowance, for they aimed at producing some desired effect, and said either more or less than the truth.

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.

Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

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.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

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

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

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.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

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.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

… yellow journalism

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

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 liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.