Freeman Dyson Quotes

Yellow journalism is defined by prominent headlines that screamed excitement, often about comparatively unimportant news; a lavish use of pictures, many of them without significance; faked interviews and stories; a Sunday supplement and color comics; and a more or less ostentatious sympathy with the 'underdog,' with campaigns against abuses suffered by the common people.

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

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

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

Headlines twice the size of the events.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

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 media I’ve had a lot to do with is lazy. we fed them and they ate it everyday.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

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

… yellow journalism

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

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

Fox is great at making mountains out of molehills. Hannity is the best at it.

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

The corrupt media is trying to do everything in their power to stop our movement.

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

What I meant when I say that the media are bots, I don't want anybody misunderstand this. I'm watching CNN and one of their infobabes is doing this report on Al Franken questioning [Jeff] Sessions during the confirmation hearings. I'm convinced - and they played an edited version of it. It was edited by somebody to make it look like it was something other than what it was, and I'm convinced this infobabe hasn't the slightest clue.

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.