Joey Skaggs Quotes

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

The right can distort anything it wants.

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

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

Facts are a thing of the past. Americans may find it impossible to debate politics clearly because of a lack of agreement on basic matters of fact: that was certainly the case in this yea'rs Presidential election [2016]. And no one has taken more advantage of this than Donal;d Trump ... Trump and his talking heads didn't create this world. It is the result of decadews-long stategy devised devised by a numbe of public affairs practitioners who recognized that lies were the most potent weapoin in the fight against progress,

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

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

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

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

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

Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do. I never like it when they tell me that, and I'm sure they're right, but when people say things that are fabrication - you know, there were fabricated stories made up, these were fabrications. Out of nowhere.

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.