David Remnick Quotes

This is in a nutshell, this is what's wrong with our media, and we see that really played out full in this election [2016], where this is undoubtedly the most toxic election that we've had in - certainly in my lifetime.

In America, we have a media that lives in its own universe.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

So you're from the press? Well, your newspapers can all go to hell. You lied yesterday and you're getting ready to lie again today. Go climb down my back.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

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.

Not only is our electorate polarized, but their sources of information are polarized. Voters choose the sources of information that tells them what they want to hear.

Oftentimes the … media only partially quote what politicians say. This has prevented the public from understanding my true intentions. So now I am sending messages through Facebook and other networks directly to the public.

We live in an age where people can not only choose their own sources, but they can choose their own facts.

You can’t blame the message on the medium, not exactly. But maybe, all things considered, arming everyone with pocket supercomputers, and then filtering most of human experience through social-media feedback loops, wasn’t the greatest idea…however glorious modern communications may be, they’ve also empowered a cast of goons, crooks and jihadists to build audiences and influence world-wide.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.

During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.

The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

For years, right wing outlets like outlets like Fox News and talk radio have been telling their audience day after day that any information coming from outside of conservative media is not to be trusted.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

I think we all have a love/hate relationship with the media.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.