Brianna Keilar Quotes

News isn't even the truth on television.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I've got to say no.

When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what's real.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed voter.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

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

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

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.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

A lot of things the press say are nonsense.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.

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

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.