Robert Greenwald Quotes

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

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.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

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

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

My contempt for the instruments of public information—particularly the press, is unlimited ...

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

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.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

We must constantly encourage Western journalists to write precisely the opposite of our real intentions and anyone who writes or speaks about our real intentions accurately or impartially in the Western sense of these words must quickly be dismissed and ridiculed as someone of the Right or a fascist, someone who wants to bring back McCarthyism.

I'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.

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

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

Don't believe the fake media.

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

I believe most media is filtered and fake.