Frank Black Quotes

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

The media can't get anything straight.

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

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

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

Turner, forget it. We don't go in for that kind of crap that you have back in New York -- of being obliged to print both sides. We're going to beat this son-of-a-bitch Sinclair any way we can. We're going to kill him.

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'