Gus Van Sant Quotes

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.

I accept the media for what they are. Most of them are really good people. Some of them are scumbags.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

I love what news has become. It's no longer based on facts, it's based on entertainment.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

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

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.

Whoever said I hated the media?

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

I think the era of access journalism as we've known it is over.