Michael Crichton Quotes

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

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.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

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

I apologize for what the media has done.

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

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

I was told that television will be very difficult. But I think everyone just hypes it.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

How frustrating would it be if you're the president of the United States, and every single time you turn on the TV on most of the channels, they're misconstruing what you say?

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

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

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

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

The media cannot come separate [Donald] Trump from his supporters. Only Trump can do that. They're trying, they're gonna keep trying because they think they can. They did it with [George W.]Bush. They did it with [Mitt] Romney. They did it with [John] McCain. They did it with Bob Dole.