Kevin Magnussen Quotes

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

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

Trump has broken the news system because he has found ways to go out there, get attention, say a lot of things that are untrue and confuse the public.

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

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.

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

The media can't get anything straight.

Television’s a funny thing. You can be edited in ways that makes you appear to say what you didn’t say.

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

A lot of the fake news conversation came right after the 2016 election, but it's something that had been discussed before Donald Trump ever ran for president.

Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.

Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.

With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries are really a batch of manipulations and lies.