The quality of economic journalism in the United States is terrible. Day after day, journalists write about the causes and consequences of economic conditions and events without understanding the underlying economics of the situation, and their articles are, as a rule, simply bunk.
- Robert Higgs
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
- Ronald Coase
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this... You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward - reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories.
- Michael Crichton