Evelyn Waugh Quotes

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

Most of the media's stories are accurate. My problem is that they are not complete.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not journalism. It doesn't have the rigor of journalism. It doesn't have the proof positive that facts provide. So it can be readily dismissed as mere propaganda. But I can certainly reach more people.

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.

I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

You guys at Fox can't seem to get your facts straight.

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a Pulitzer prize for journalism and will put that level of weight on it, like they're an ambassador to some country we're trying to establish trade with.

If we believe the good we read about ourselves, we have to believe the bad we read about ourselves.

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.