David Muir Quotes

The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it's hard to find substantial journalism there.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.

We live in an age where people can not only choose their own sources, but they can choose their own facts.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

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.

Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what's real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.

If you want to understand why a minority of American voters are unplugged from the fact-based news that the rest of the country depends on, just imagine being told multiple times a day that real news is a hoax.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

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

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

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

News isn't even the truth on television.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

Don't believe the fake media.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

Looking back, Mr. Trump's exploitation of the term 'fake news' to smear journalists was the single most consequential thing he did during the transition period. He built the scaffolding for his supporters to reject any and all information that wasn't Trump-approved.