Morgan Neville Quotes

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

In this crazy political business, at least in our times, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

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

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

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.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

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

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

Turner, forget it. We don't go in for that kind of crap that you have back in New York -- of being obliged to print both sides. We're going to beat this son-of-a-bitch Sinclair any way we can. We're going to kill him.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Don't believe the fake media.

What I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera, on air, are not particularly believed and quite often not true. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

The Conservative party now exists largely to misinform the public, to convince voters struggling through austerity that they have the same interests as billionaires and corporations.