American people Quote by Upton Sinclair

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

“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it…

— Hans Eysenck

“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman…

— C.S. Lewis

“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

That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years.…

— Robinson Jeffers

“It is not true that the world hates America. It is the world’s Left that hates America. However, because the Left dominates the world’s…

— Dennis Prager

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

— Anonymous

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even…

— Thomas Jefferson

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or…

— I. F. Stone

“the essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.”

— William Manchester

“If you do not read the newspaper, the lack of knowledge will show. If you do read it, misconception of reality will prevail.”

— Stephen Clayworth

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

— Glenn Greenwald