Dionne Bromfield Quotes

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 news pages are now routinely the site of the rankest propaganda.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

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

Reporters were all part of the war effort. They went along with it, and not only that, they abetted it.…It is in the things not mentioned that the untruth lies.…They wrote only a part of the war

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

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

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

The right can distort anything it wants.

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

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

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

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.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable to the opponent.... The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

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.

The age of spin should be over.

Propaganda is bad when it comes from the enemy. It is good when it comes from us.

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

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.