Tito Jackson Quotes

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

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.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.