A Quote by Val Kilmer

News isn't even the truth on television.

Val Kilmer

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Even News Television Truth

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Val Kilmer
American - Actor
Born: December 31, 1959

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 definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

Val Kilmer

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

Bob Iger

I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.

Zoey Tur

I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

Neil Postman

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.

Andy Warhol

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Tucker Carlson

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.

Megyn Kelly

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

Jessica Savitch

There are so many negative things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing.

Kevin Sorbo

It's interesting, even in popular culture, in our vernacular now, the whole idea of 'fake news.' You hear it repeated on scripted television shows, on reality shows, you just see it everywhere, even in other countries.

Dagen McDowell

A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

Chris Hedges

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

Rupert Murdoch

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.