Media Truth Quotes

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.

'Billboard' needs to tell the truth, shake things up.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

There's so much in the media that's not the truth.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

News isn't even the truth on television.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I have been very concerned about media bias and the total dishonesty of the press. I think new media is a great way to get out the truth.

How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative.

The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.

It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.

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

As much as I like Michael Moore - and I'm on the same political side as him - I think his documentaries are really a batch of manipulations and lies.

What I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera, on air, are not particularly believed and quite often not true. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.

What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.

You amp things up and you speed things up, but technically, you can still be legally correct. This is the big beef I have with novels as well as television shows - it actually makes for a better show when you accommodate the truth.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.