Ruud van Nistelrooy Quotes

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

A lot of stories that aren't true get out into the mainstream, and it's hard to correct that. People want to hear what they already believe.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

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

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.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

There's a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there's a lot of people out there who think I'm a nasty human being.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

The public's not stupid.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

The public are not stupid.

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.

If you want to understand why a minority of American voters are unplugged from the fact-based news that the rest of the country depends on, just imagine being told multiple times a day that real news is a hoax.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

People see whatever the media first reports.