Facts Quote by Sharyl Attkisson

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

— James Taylor

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

— Rod Blackhurst

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

— Jon Stewart

American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.

— Margarita Simonyan

If you want to understand why a minority of American voters are unplugged from the fact-based news that the rest of the country depends…

— Brian Stelter

“Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama…

— Lance Morcan

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with…

— Paul Auster

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

— Gore Vidal

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

— Lewis H. Lapham

People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.

— Susan Rice

Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you do, it's…

— Stacey Dooley

The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We…

— Chris Abani