Jimmy Wales Quotes

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

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.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

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.

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

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.

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.

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

... infiltrate and neutralize the mainstream American media.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news.

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

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.

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

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 thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

Don't trust everything you see on TV.