Steve Hilton Quotes

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.

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

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

I hate negative ads in general.

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.

News isn't even the truth on television.

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

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

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.

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

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

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

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

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

A lot of things the press say are nonsense.

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

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

I suppose my attitude is what's most important is that we surround the president's misleading information with accurate information and help people know what is true 'cause I think the biggest trend of the Trump years is that people are increasingly confused about what is real and what is made-up.

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