“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Media
Edgar Watson Howe on Lies
“Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.” Continue reading
Kate Reid on Acting
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.” Continue reading
Groucho Marx on TV and Books
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Continue reading
Marlon Brando on Television
“If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.” Continue reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Journalism
“Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.” Continue reading
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Television
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.” Continue reading
John Kenneth Galbraith on Thinking
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” Continue reading
Lyndon B. Johnson on Politics
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read ‘President Can’t Swim’.” Continue reading
Clive Barnes on Television
“Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.” Continue reading
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