P. J. Harvey Quotes

I'm very wary of news on television.

Don't trust everything you see on TV.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, "I don't know what to believe." There are no checks and balances in quality control.

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.

I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention.

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

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.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

In Washington, excessive cynicism is the most prevalent form of naivete. I just wish reporters were as skeptical about bad news as they are about good news.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Those villainous reporters [Stephen] Douglas has with him.