Dick Cavett Quotes

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

I'm very wary of news on television.

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

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

I can't believe anything I hear on television anymore.

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.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

Don't believe the fake media.

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

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

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

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

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

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

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

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.

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.

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

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

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.

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

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.