Media Spin Quotes

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

We’re going to sell Jack like soap flakes. There are no accidents in politics.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

They put out statements to make themselves look good.

Bill O'Reilly is smooth. He's one of very few broadcasters I know who can squeeze a weeks-long news cycle from one incident and make it entertaining regardless the time stamp.

Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on that can be spun. Truly, that's what you have to think of it as.

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin' news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it.

The bias of the media is neither liberal nor conservative but negative.

So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other.

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

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.

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

The media loves negative spin.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.