Media Inaccuracy Quotes

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

The vast majority of what I've seen written about me is not true. My family and friends - the people who matter to me - they know the real story.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

The media can't get anything straight.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

There was one rumor that I saw in a magazine saying I was pregnant. I thought that was brilliant and it still crops up now. But it's definitely not true. I can promise you that.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate.

One of the strange things about doing publicity is that a mistake in a newspaper profile long ago is repeated and amplified over time.