Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

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

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

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.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

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.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it's better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

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

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

Never believe anything until it has officially been denied.

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.