Richard Painter Quotes

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

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

We live in an age where people can not only choose their own sources, but they can choose their own facts.

Don't believe the fake media.

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

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

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

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

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

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 media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

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

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

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.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

Today the greatest evil—and therefore the most immediate—is the press.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.