Will Rogers Quotes

I only know what I read in the papers.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

I get mad at myself when I get news from Twitter before I get it from a regular news source. Then I'm off to a bad start: getting the second-hand, filtered experience all day long.

It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

The public's not stupid.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I don't read all the newspapers.

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.