Wendy Cope Quotes

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

You can never trust what you read.

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

It's the broadcaster's dilemma. Are we true journalists? I don't know if I am or not.

The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.

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

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

The New York Times, they lie. They lie like I've never seen anything.