Joe Perry Quotes

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.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

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

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

You can never trust what you read.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

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.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

A labouring man ... read and study halfe his time, and then be at a loss to know what is true and what not. Thus the few have almost ruined the Libberty of the press.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

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!

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

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.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.

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