Arnold Bennett Quotes
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.
Enoch Arnold Bennett, 1867–1931, English Novelist & Journalist, The Title
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The queen was a lot more sophisticated about the newspapers than politicians in the 21st century.
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Even as late as the 1970s most media organizations did not feel any inhibition about having a spokesperson for a political movement or candidate comment about statements that were clearly untrue. The constant political criticism of the media produced this change and no matter how absurd or false a political statement is, most media will have a spokesperson for the lie appear on the program to repeat the lie. Both political parties are thereby encouraged to exaggerate or even lie as they will never by exposed by trusted journalists and can reduce all falsehoods to a “he says, she says.”
In 1956 Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The chairman was unhappy with his testimony:
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist. He was a prolific writer: between the start of his career in 1898 and his death he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal of more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 different newspapers and periodicals, worked in, and briefly ran, the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s.
