Mary Docter Quotes

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

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.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

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

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

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

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

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

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

The media can't get anything straight.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.