Gore Vidal Quotes

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

I think what I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera on air are not particularly believed and quite often not true and its an extraordinary position to be in when you've had WhatsApp messages, text messages off record.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

I know there are a lot of experts in the media - a bunch of smart guys out there who know exactly what they're talking about all the time. They don't know what they're talking about.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

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

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

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

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.