Bill Maher Quotes

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

I get mad at myself when I get news from Twitter before I get it from a regular news source. Then I'm off to a bad start: getting the second-hand, filtered experience all day long.

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

If journalism is sometimes inaccurate and often inadequate, ignorance would not be preferable.

That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.

I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news.

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

If you're gonna watch the Drive-By Media, don't take it seriously.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to calm down enough to listen.