Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

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

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

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

I only know what I read in the papers.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

TV news is not very instructive.

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

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.

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.

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

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

The media's job is to question a premise.

I don't watch the media that much.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

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

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn't what I do. I defend.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

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

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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.