Sharon Stone Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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 believe most media is filtered and fake.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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.

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

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....

There evolved a new media definition of civility that privileged "balance" over truth-telling—even when one side was lying. It's a real and profound change.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

There's so much in the media that's not the truth.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

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

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

News isn't even the truth on television.

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

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.