Rajiv Gandhi Quotes

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

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

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

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

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be 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.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

I'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear.

Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, 'Reggie has a massive ego; he's narcissistic, he's cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,' because that's what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn't let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.

The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

There's so much in the media that's not the truth.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

People see whatever the media first reports.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.