Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

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

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

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

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

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.

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

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

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

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

It’s our responsibility to read the newspapers and then say it is our opinion.

Modern young news consumers want not only to know what happened but why it happened.

One of the first things we should teach every student is not to believe everything they read and hear.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

I just hope that people get a variety of news sources to keep themselves informed.

I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.