History Quotes / StrawmanNewsMedia

-> ''"[[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Weazel News]]: Confirming Your Prejudices."''

->'''Chris''': April ends up getting chewed out by Sterns, but as she leaves, we find that Raph is watching her, holding a copy of the ''New York Post'' with a headline that could literally run on every single issue of the New York Post: '''''[[YouMayPanicNow IT'S WORSE!]]'''''\\

-> ''[[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Weazel News]]: Confirming Your Prejudices.''

-->-- '''Andy Parsons''', ''Unlikely Lines to Hear in a Hollywood Blockbuster'', ''MockTheWeek''

-->--'''Maurice Chavez''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity''

-->--''Film/HotFuzz''

-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''Matt Wilson''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1990-part-one/ on]] ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''

->'''Tim Messenger:''' Sergeant Angel, Hi hi! Quick word for the ''Sandford Citizen''?
->'''Nicholas Angel:''' (on ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'') Uh, it was very enjoyable.
->'''Tim:''' "''Cop Enjoys Watching Young Lovers''."
->'''Angel:''' I don't think so.
->'''Tim:''' "''Local Bobby Gives Thumbs Up to Teen Suicide''."
->'''Angel:''' That's just grossly inappropriate.

->''"I always wondered why you couldn't just do frugal policies for a year, y'know, and then sandwiches and cake immediately ''after'' you've defeated the Shoggoth...Fantasy Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} would be on your side! They'd be saying, 'Why are the liberal papers so against monster-fighting? Do you want us all to be killed by a '''monster'''?!' And for once [[CryingWolf they'd actually be right.]]"''
-->--'''Creator/BenCroshaw''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TydBiQaXm8g#t=950s on]] the moral complexities of ''VideoGame/{{Fable 3}}''

->'''Chris''': April ends up getting chewed out by Sterns, but as she leaves, we find that Raph is watching her, holding a copy of the ''New York Post'' with a headline that could literally run on every single issue of the New York Post: '''''[[YouMayPanicNow IT'S WORSE!]]'''''
->'''Matt''': But now it’d be about the ''Post'' itself rather than the crime.

->'''Ed:''' This job is about making people ''think'' they're informed while you're selling them mufflers and reverse mortgages!
->'''Sam:''' But... the old days! [[Creator/WalterCronkite Cronkite]]!
->'''Ed:''' ''Cronkite?'' Jesus, kid! Cronkite only covered [[RichardNixon the Watergate scandal]] to help sell burglar alarms to liberals!
-->-- ''[[Website/TheOnion Onion News Empire]]''

->"''Do we have a free press today? Sure. It's free to report all the sex scandals, all the stock market news, [and] every new health fad that comes down the pike. But when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff? Such stories are not even open for discussion.''"
-->-- '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb Gary Webb]]'''

->'''Nicholas Angel:''' ''(on ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'') Uh, it was very enjoyable.

->'''Tim:''' "''Local Bobby Gives Thumbs Up to Teen Suicide''".

->''"I always wondered why you couldn't just do frugal policies for a year, y'know, and then sandwiches and cake immediately ''after'' you've defeated the Shoggoth...Fantasy FoxNews would be on your side! They'd be saying, 'Why are the liberal papers so against monster-fighting? Do you want us all to be killed by a '''monster'''?!' And for once [[CryingWolf they'd actually be right.]]"''

-->--'''BenCroshaw''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TydBiQaXm8g#t=950s on]] the moral complexities of ''VideoGame/{{Fable 3}}''

->'''Chris''': April ends up getting chewed out by Sterns, but as she leaves, we find that Raph is watching her, holding a copy of the ''New York Post'' with a headline that could literally run on every single issue of the New York Post: '''''[[YouMayPanicNow IT'S WORSE!]]'''''\\
'''Matt''': But now it’d be about the ''Post'' itself rather than the crime.

->'''Ed:''' This job is about making people ''think'' they're informed while you're selling them mufflers and reverse mortgages!\\
'''Sam:''' But... the old days! [[Creator/WalterCronkite Cronkite]]!\\
'''Ed:''' ''Cronkite?'' Jesus, kid! Cronkite only covered [[RichardNixon the Watergate scandal]] to help sell burglar alarms to liberals!

->''"I seldom watch television. But when I do set out to twirl the dial, it is usually on Sunday, when our corporate rulers address us from their cathode pulpit. [[ProfessionalButtKisser Seedy Washington journalists]], sharp-eyed government officials [[PointyHairedBoss who could not dispose of a brand-new car in Spokane]], think-tank employees, [[CaptainOblivious etiolated from too long residence 'neath flat rocks]], and always, always Henry Kissinger, whose destruction of so many Asians and their once-charming real estate [[KarmaHoudini won him a prize for peace]] from the ironists of northern Europe. The level of the chat on these programmes is about as low as it is possible to get without actually serving the viewers gin."''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', "Cue the Green God, Ted"

->''Brought to the brink of extinction, [[[Series/DoctorWho the Daleks]]] have been forced to resurrect themselves from the 'dregs'... which seems to be synonymous with the contestants who lose game shows. The Daleks take the people who get knocked out before the finale. Because the Daleks have become TV producers. They've become the people who run ''Big Brother'' and ''Trinny & Susannah'' and ''The Weakest Link''. They've become the bosses of reality TV. They've become Simon Cowell. (Which [[EvenEvilHasStandards is kind of an insult]] to the Daleks, if you ask me.)''
-->-- [[http://shabogangraffiti.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/10_20.html Shabogan Graffiti]] on "The Parting of the Ways"

->''"It's been pointed out before that the ''Daily Mail''[='=]s repeated leching over teenage girls can be handily collated by popping the phrase '[[DirtyOldMan all grown up]]' into their search bar, but scientists had yet to crack the code that simultaneously latches on to the two main agendas they push with their stories about females, namely –\\\
#1: The sexualising of underage girls.\\\
#2: Helpfully exposing [[ChristmasCake all women over 25]] as the disgusting, ashen hags they are."''
-->--'''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/the-daily-mail-formula/ Stuart Millard]]'''

->''"''Pressing Issues'' is a roundtable discussion group in which we as self-important people exactly what they think about things, and then they argue amongst themselves for a bit before leaving with views more extreme than when they came in. Heh, only joking, ladies and gentlemen! This is a show founded on the ancient Greek principle of enlightened debate and the American principle of free speech. --Or is that the ancient Greek priniciple of [[TallPoppySyndrome feeding wise men hemlock]] and the American principle of [[{{Eagleland}} being annoying and loud so no one can get a word in?]] I forget. Only time will tell."''

->'''Ed:''' "This job is about making people ''think'' they're informed while you're selling them mufflers and reverse mortgages!"\\
'''Sam:''' "But... the old days! [[WalterCronkite Cronkite]]!"\\
'''Ed:''' "''Cronkite?'' Jesus, kid! Cronkite only covered [[RichardNixon the Watergate scandal]] to help sell burglar alarms to liberals!"

->''"It’s been pointed out before that the ''Daily Mail''[=’=]s repeated leching over teenage girls can be handily collated by popping the phrase ‘[[DirtyOldMan all grown up]]’ into their search bar, but scientists had yet to crack the code that simultaneously latches on to the two main agendas they push with their stories about females, namely –\\\

->''"Is it because journalists, as a class, are habitual liars, and prefer what is not true to what is true? I don't think it is. Rather, it is because journalists are, in the main, extremely stupid, sentimental and credulous fellows -- because nothing is easier than to fool them -- because the majority of them lack the sharp intelligence that the proper discharge of their duties demands."''
-->--'''HLMencken''', ''Prejudices: A Selection''

->''"Nowdays, If a news report does not tie up loose ends as neatly as ''TheATeam'', it is considered a flop."''
-->--'''UsefulNotes/RichardNixon''', ''In The Arena''

->''“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”''
-->--'''Creator/HunterSThompson''', ''Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's''

->''"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the [[ViewersAreGoldfish 30 second sound bites]] (now down to 10 seconds or less), {{lowest common denominator}} programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”''
-->--'''CarlSagan''', ''The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark''

->''"I always wondered why you couldn't just do frugal policies for a year, y'know, and then sandwiches and cake immediately ''after'' you've defeated the Shoggoth...Fantasy FoxNews would be on your side! They'd be saying, 'Why are the liberal papers so against monster-fighting? Do you want us all to be killed by a '''monster'''?!' And for once they'd actually be right."''

->''"You know what a fake news show on Fox News should give you? ''Real news''."''
-->--'''LewisBlack'''

->''"I was at a conference just a couple of weeks ago, and one journalist asked a PR rep if he was ''[[YesMan allowed]]'' to write a story. Edward R. Murrow didn't just spin in his grave at that query; he catapulted out of it like a jack-in-the-box and started choking bitches."''
-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20819_5-disturbing-reasons-not-to-trust-news-from-reporter.html "5 Disturbing Reasons Not to Trust the News (From a Reporter)"]]

->''"That's why people care so much about what a sociopathic killer's [[MurderSimulators favorite video game]] was or what their house and living situation was like: The people who actually tune into this news coverage or buy these tabloids turn killers into celebrities. What fucks it all up is that these reports turn homicide into an accomplishment, and after all these spree killings, you see ''other'' killers pop up and follow the example. That's exactly what happened after Newtown."''
-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DisFlR_LxYs George Weidman]]'''

->''"A lot of people say to me, 'Martin, why are you so angry at the ''Daily Mail''?' There's also a kind of personal element to it, as well: A couple years ago, there was a story about killer foxes in London. Here's a photo: '[[YouCanPanicNow This fox attacked a man who was carrying his shopping bags home from the supermarket!]]' The fox attacked him for a period of (allegedly) fifteen minutes after which it got away a loaf of garlic bread! Foxes are well-known predators of the garlic bread. And this kinda stuff was really big at the time; there were various hoaxes around, there were all sorts of stories that were almost entirely bullshit. But this had a real impact on people.\\\
On Monday, I have to bury my grandad. Now, a couple of years ago, we went to his house as he was in his declining years. We went there in the summer, and all of the windows were bolted shut, and the house was absolutely boiling hot. And we said, 'Grandad, why don't you have the windows open?! We're boiling in here.' And he didn't want to, because he was afraid that the foxes would get in and attack him. And it's an easy thing to laugh at, and at the time, we did. But this is kinda what the ''Daily Mail'' does. And thing is, my grandad was an incredibly intelligent person...But the thing about the ''Daily Mail'', and the thing about this kind of journalism, it doesn't matter how well inoculated against it you think you are; doesn't matter if you think you're the sort of person that adverts dont't get to; it doesn't matter if you don't think you're persuaded by this. This stuff is like mercury in fish; it kinda drips, drips, drips day after day, and it eventually starts to to infest people and give them a disturbed view of the world. And for vulnerable people, for elderly people, for people who don't ordinarily leave the house very often, papers like the ''Daily Mail'' are the only window they have on the world."''
-->--'''Martin Robbins''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9dqNTTdYKY "Why the Daily Mail is Evil"]]