Brian Stelter Quotes

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

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.

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.'

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

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

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.

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Don't believe the fake media.

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

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.'

Trump's rise was contingent on wide swaths of the country completely tuning out so-called mainstream media sources, while all too many outlets did a poor job covering 2016.

The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don't want to hear the other side.

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

The greatest hoax of all of the Trump years is that Donald Trump has convinced one-third of the country not to believe not anything but Sean Hannity and Fox and Trump.

The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed voter.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. I think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved it has completely failed to act as an effective fourth estate. And young people didn't sleep through that, as is widely believed; they learned instead not to trust what they were being told.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.