Ignorance Quote by Hans Eysenck

“With news and data that is tailored to our prejudices, we deprive ourselves of true information. We wind up wallowing in our own false…

— Charles Seife

“Mainstream media outlets and journalists act as agents of darkness, spreading fear and misinformation to please those in power. Their role is to serve…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“media are independent and committed to discovering and reporting the truth, and that they do not merely reflect the world as powerful groups wish…

— Noam Chomsky

“from opinion surveys that journalists are less trusted and less esteemed than used to be the case.”

— Ian Hargreaves

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

— Alexander Cockburn

“It seemed that the media pretty much controlled how the average person perceived the situation. We had little respect for journalists. Throughout my career,…

— Duncan Falconer

It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making…

— Aaron McGruder

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even…

— Margaret Atwood

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest common denominator—writing…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.”

— Nathan Hill