Tom Lehrer Quotes

A lot of things the press say are nonsense.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.

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

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in the open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

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

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.

Well, I think the public has been well-served by the increase in fact-checking. And I find it shocking that not all news outlets have invested in hiring fact-checkers because the line is so pervasive.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

Speculation replaces fact. It's very easy to see news outlets running with information that is unconfirmed or erroneous.

But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

You're safer not believing what you read in the New York Times. I don't care what it's about, but certainly that you're safer not believing anywhere in the mainstream media the general thrust of this story, that the Russians wanted Donald Trump to win and hacked the Democrats and embarrassed John Podesta and Hillary Clinton and succeeded.