Bill Parcells Quotes

The media loves negative spin.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.

When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.

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

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.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

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.

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

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

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....

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.

I'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

People see whatever the media first reports.

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

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

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.