Thomas Griffith Quotes

Information is bad for knowledge.

Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

A labouring man ... read and study halfe his time, and then be at a loss to know what is true and what not. Thus the few have almost ruined the Libberty of the press.

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

I think what people are really crying out for is simple information they can trust when they're bombarded by attack ads, fundraising pitchers and all sort of comment and opinion all over the place increasingly.

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

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

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

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

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.

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

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

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

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

The news and truth are not the same thing.

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.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

We are trained to distinguish between journalism that's short and long, that's responsible and irresponsible, that stands for the right values and stands for the wrong.

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

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.