Hilary Mason Quotes

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

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

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

I'm very wary of news on television.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

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

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

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

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

I can't believe anything I hear on television anymore.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

Just shouting about 'facts' will get you nowhere with those who no longer trust the sources that produce them.

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

Beware of current truths.

The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.