Pat Nixon Quotes

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

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

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

We've lost a lot of regard for straight forward news stories, and that has then been supplemented by comment, not even analysis, which has created a lot of celebrity journalists.

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

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

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?