Daniel Webster Hoan Quotes

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.

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

As a rule I don't care a damn what any crooked newspaperman says about me, because they're mostly goddamn liars.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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.

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

They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do.

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

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.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

The press are scum.

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.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

Tell him to go to Hell!

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures who lie with a straight face.

A lot of things the press say are nonsense.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.