Chris Lilley Quotes

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.

I'm very wary of news on television.

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

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

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

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

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

I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody.

Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

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

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

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

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

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

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

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

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!

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.