Joe Scarborough Quotes

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

I don't think about the media.

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.

I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

The media do strange things.

There is a war on truth raging every day, and journalists have been forced to fight some of those.

The media is so powerful.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

I have to say, I have never watched 'Infowars.' I know that they say zany things that are patently untrue. But I also think that MSNBC says zany things that are patently untrue.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

The ferociousness of some of the media is shocking.