If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

‚The Lorax‘ book was intended to be propaganda.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I don’t follow politics much.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

We are all the President’s men.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat… colourful. That’s when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

The press is the enemy.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

I make pop culture.

I became a journalist because one didn’t have to specialise.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.