Thomas Sowell Quotes

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

The age of spin should be over.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

Diplomats lie to journalists, then believe the headlines.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

There are things that go public, and everything that comes out is not the truth.

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

The news pages are now routinely the site of the rankest propaganda.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

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.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

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.