Walt Kelly Quotes

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

Don't believe everything you read.

I think more and more people are starting to understand that you can't believe half of everything you read or what you see. There are so many information outlets that are available that it's almost too much, there is so much misinformation out there.

Don't you believe what you read.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?

Because I don't believe everything I read.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

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.

I'm very wary of news on television.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.

Journalists should recalibrate themselves to be more skeptical of the consensus of their peers. That’s because a position that seems to have deep backing from the evidence may really just be a reflection from the echo chamber. You should be looking toward how much evidence there is for a particular position as opposed to how many people hold that position: having 20 independent pieces of evidence that mostly point in the same direction might indeed reflect a powerful consensus, while having 20 like-minded people citing the same warmed-over evidence is much less powerful.

We must fight for liberal ideas like openness, but also about having a media that we believe in and that can sort between real news and facts and not-so-factual things.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

Nobody should believe something just because an intelligence agent says it.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

I think if you use Twitter and social media as your main source of information you are an idiot, but I think most people who use it know better, so I kind of enjoy it.

Like the saying goes, don't believe everything you read.

You have to really be careful with what you see and read because you can't believe it all.