Iris Dement Quotes

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

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

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

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.

It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

You can never trust what you read.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

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.

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.

Don't believe the fake media.

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

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

Don't trust everything you see on TV.

It's not in the interest of the corporations who own the networks to actually be educating the American people so that are debating the real issues. It's much better to deflect attention away from issues and get into the story of the day.