{"id":637992,"date":"2021-08-12T17:05:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637992"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T21:05:35","slug":"fact-check-did-jim-carrey-say-a-30-day-national-media-shutdown-will-solve-the-worlds-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-jim-carrey-say-a-30-day-national-media-shutdown-will-solve-the-worlds-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Jim Carrey Say A 30-Day National Media Shutdown Will Solve The World\u2019s Problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-jim-carrey-say-a-30-day-national-media-shutdown-will-solve-the-worlds-problems%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637992&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2020-01-30T181640Z_113241347_RC2IQE9GNIQH_RTRMADP_3_FILM-SONIC-THE-HEDGEHOG-PREMIERE-1-scaled-e1628801126996.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=191880646325944&amp;id=100065120300189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims actor Jim Carrey made a statement advocating for closing down the \u201cnational media for 30 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement has been misattributed to Carrey.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image in the Facebook post shows Carrey in front of a black background along with an alleged quote from him that reads, \u201cI say we close down the national media for 30 days and watch 80% of the world\u2019s problem go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, no record of Carrey saying such a thing. Check Your Fact <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=national%20media%20(from%3AJimCarrey)&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searched<\/a> through the actor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimcarrey?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">verified Twitter account<\/a>, but found no instance of the quote. Had Carrey suggested shutting the media down for 30 days, media outlets likely would have reported on it, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Jim+Carrey+%22I+say+we+close+down+the+national+media+for+30+days%22&amp;oq=Jim+Carrey+%22I+say+we+close+down+the+national+media+for+30+days%22&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3.7191j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">none<\/a> have.<\/p>\n<p>Marleah Leslie, Carrey\u2019s publicist, confirmed in an email that the quote was misattributed, saying the statement was \u201cnot made by Jim Carrey.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/07\/fact-check-new-zealand-government-public-broadcaster-censor-anti-government-comments-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did New Zealand\u2019s Government Tell A Public Broadcaster To Censor Anti-Government Comments On Its Social Media Platforms?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quote has been circulating on social media since <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/milpol1\/status\/1238895192356388871\">at least<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/timberunity\/posts\/957553697993922\/\">March 2020<\/a> without attribution to Carrey. In March 2020 political commentator Michael N\u00f6then sent a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikandynothem\/status\/1241676733226430465?lang=en\">tweet<\/a> reading, \u201cI say we close down the national media for 30 days and watch 80% of the worlds problems go away. RETWEET if you agree!\u201d N\u00f6them did not attribute the statement to Carrey or anyone else. A Facebook user posted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/troy.krause\/posts\/10221508173436090\">same quote<\/a> in March 2020, which was shared over 900 times, and likewise did not attribute it to Carrey.<\/p>\n<p>Carrey has previously publicly criticised the media. In January, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimCarrey\/status\/1353827793994272768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> a political cartoon of a doctor pointing at a Fox News logo inside an x-ray of a skull and saying, \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u2026 it\u2019s brain cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most corrosive threats to society moving forward is social media and right wing disinformation,\u201d Carrey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimCarrey\/status\/1353827793994272768\">tweeted<\/a> in January. \u201cThere should be giant fines for false info and if they call their content \u2018hyperbole\u2019 in court, they should not be allowed to call it \u2018news\u2019 on tv.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims actor Jim Carrey made a statement advocating for closing down the \u201cnational media for 30 days.\u201dVerdict: False The statement has been misattributed to Carrey. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}