Michael Jackson Quotes

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I wouldn’t mind having the proceedings of the court sent out on television covering it gavel to gavel. But by the time most of the media do their editing and broadcasting, I’m afraid that the public will see an atypical sampling of the court. It will misinform the public rather than inform.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

The internet is such a strange place. You can put up one thing on there like, Katy Perry was a taekwondo master of the black belt! When really all I did was one kickboxing class. That's how I think my short time in doing my gospel record was like.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

The media continues to spin the State of Israel and Jews as war-mongering, evil people, which we are not.

To be honest, TV can portray you in whatever way they want to portray you.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.