Brian Stelter Quotes

Trump has broken the news system because he has found ways to go out there, get attention, say a lot of things that are untrue and confuse the public.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

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

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

More and more Canadians are seeing through Liberal deceptions.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

There are things that go public, and everything that comes out is not the truth.

A lot of the fake news conversation came right after the 2016 election, but it's something that had been discussed before Donald Trump ever ran for president.

Looking back, Mr. Trump's exploitation of the term 'fake news' to smear journalists was the single most consequential thing he did during the transition period. He built the scaffolding for his supporters to reject any and all information that wasn't Trump-approved.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

I know every politician spins the truth a little.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.