Denis Dutton Quotes

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

Film used to have to be niche and find its audience in a little art house cinema, and TV had to work for everybody. And now it's kind of flipped where there's so many platforms that TV can be incredibly niche.

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

Financial pressures, the demand of ratings, the changing tastes of the American public all led to new decisions in newsrooms about what to cover and how.

Don't believe the fake media.

The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.'

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.

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

We need ethical journalism. There is also capacity limitations in journalism.

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.

Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most.

Radio stations provided a service. They weeded out the stuff that no one should ever have to even think about. Now, they made mistakes and they made mistakes with me even but, by and large, they provided a service. They were an editor.

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.

There's an apparent freedom, an apparent liberty of access to everything, but you can't use it because it's too much. Everything is at the same level. You even have fake news. You have to go through fake news to make up your mind. Facts and lies are treated as equal. There are even people who are against the idea of climate change.

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

The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism?

I love to consume information of all kinds, and I think that also hopefully helps with my broadcasting, that I always try to bring up a fact that maybe will connect to a person who's not a big fan, or maybe a pop culture reference.

People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to be sanitised and dumbed down.

Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will be worse.