Jake Tapper Quotes

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

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.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.