Thomas Griffith Quotes

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

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

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

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.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'

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

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.

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

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

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

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

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

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.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

… yellow journalism

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle