Politics Quote by Peter Hartshorn

“Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.”

— James Morcan

“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the…

— Sara Sheridan

“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.”

— Glenn Greenwald

“Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.”

— Patrick Cockburn

“It's not easy to stand apart from mass hysteria - to believe that most of what's in the financial news is wrong, to believe…

— Michael Lewis

We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of…

— Jon Lovett

“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.”

— Jane Austen

“We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.”

— Bryant McGill

“In debate, especially when the dispute is hot and supercharged and freighted with ill will, I have always been the flabbiest of contenders. My…

— William Styron

“The American people thoroughly despise and hate their newspapers; yet they seem to have no idea what to do about it, and take it…

— Upton Sinclair

“There is nothing more deceitful...than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes and indirect boast.”

— Jane Austen

“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