Lynn Samuels Quotes

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.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I believe most media is filtered and fake.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

People see whatever the media first reports.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

Fox News is garbage.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.

I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to them is that they sometimes jump to conclusions about what this will mean. Get ahead of themselves.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

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.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

News isn't even the truth on television.

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.