George A. Romero Quotes

As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries are really a batch of manipulations and lies.

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

Objectivity is the purpose of documentary filmmakers.

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

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

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

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

Our job is to get as close to the verified truth as is possible.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.