Vince McMahon Quotes

News isn't even the truth on television.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

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

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

Don't believe the fake media.

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 have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.

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 democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

I'm very wary of news on television.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

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....

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.