John Catsimatidis Quotes

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same.

People see whatever the media first reports.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

The right can distort anything it wants.

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.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The expressions of newspapers, like those of orators, could not be accepted without allowance, for they aimed at producing some desired effect, and said either more or less than the truth.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit.

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

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....

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.

There evolved a new media definition of civility that privileged "balance" over truth-telling—even when one side was lying. It's a real and profound change.

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

The press creates a caricature.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.