Rodrigo Duterte Quotes

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

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.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

I think the media is a real demon.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

People see whatever the media first reports.

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.

The media cause more problems than they do good.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

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

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

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

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.