Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.

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

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

News isn't even the truth on television.

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 news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

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

The way we get our news is very important, and the idea that the media doesn't always do right by us, and that they focus on things they shouldn't for ratings, is very important, and it's absolutely worthy of ridicule.

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

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

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.

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

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.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

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

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

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.

Fox Televison News is reaching Third Reich standards of media coverage of world affairs.

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

The media is really failing the American people.

Don't believe the fake media.