Paul Weller Quotes
I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.
Presidents have always complained that the press has misrepresented what they have said and their positions. Since many of the newspapers were owned or controlled by political parties from the beginning of the Republic, this was actually true in many cases. In modern times, wealthy individuals with strong political points of view will buy and control newspapers and other media and do deliberately distort politician’s positions when it is in their ideological interest to do so. Most newspapers and professionalized media however do not intend to distort and have no axe to grind as some newspapers had in the past, but there are errors, and most significantly the press is always on the lookout for gaffs, inconsistency and hypocrisy and give those things more coverage than the politician’s positions and statements get.
Paul John Weller is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame with the punk rock/new wave/mod revival band The Jam. He had further success with the blue-eyed soul music of the Style Council (1983–1989), before establishing himself as a solo artist with his eponymous 1992 album.
