Jack Palance Quotes

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

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 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.

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

First OSP [Office of Special Plans] supplies false or exaggerated intelligence; then members of the WHIG leak it to friendly reporters, complete with prepackaged vivid imagery; finally, when the story breaks, senior officials point to it as proof and parrot the unnamed quotes they or their colleagues previously supplied.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

There’s nothing worse in politics than releasing facts one at a time.

I have no more obligation to spin. When you’re in the White House, you spin.

The age of spin should be over.

This is Capitol Hill where they never let facts get in the way of a good press release.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.