Culture Quote by Richard Bacon

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the…

— Val Kilmer

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

— James Taylor

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

— Nate Silver

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

— Rutger Bregman

Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the…

— Abi Morgan

“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.”

— Clay Shirky

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

— Val Kilmer

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be…

— Kurt Loder

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

— Julian Assange

The media has lost its monopoly. They have lost the opportunity they had to define what's news and what isn't news. They have lost…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful - the debate will always garner that kind of traction because…

— Emily Maitlis

I don't think anywhere you go to get news is news anymore. It is commentary, but mostly it is the advancement of agenda.

— Rush Limbaugh