Ben Jonson Quotes

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

I send you the newspapers; but they do not always speak true.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

How do you know the news is reliable if you didn’t gather it yourself?

When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.