Emily Maitlis Quotes

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.

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'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

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

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

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.

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

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies, notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

There evolved a new media definition of civility that privileged "balance" over truth-telling—even when one side was lying. It's a real and profound change.

Increasingly, campaigns treat the fact-checkers not as arbitrators who must be heeded, but as participants in the ever-roiling political tussle.

Facts are a thing of the past. Americans may find it impossible to debate politics clearly because of a lack of agreement on basic matters of fact: that was certainly the case in this yea'rs Presidential election [2016]. And no one has taken more advantage of this than Donal;d Trump ... Trump and his talking heads didn't create this world. It is the result of decadews-long stategy devised devised by a numbe of public affairs practitioners who recognized that lies were the most potent weapoin in the fight against progress,

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.

I'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

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.