William Galston Quotes

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

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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.

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

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

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.

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.

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

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?

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

In the era of President Trump, we've gone from believing things that are 'true enough' to believing things that aren't true at all, and can be demonstrably proven so.

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.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

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.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.