Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

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.

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

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

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

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.

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

We have to challenge lies. We have to challenge falsehoods and conspiracy theories. If you don't, they fester - unchecked and unchallenged.

It's not as if Trump is addicted to the best-researched, most in-depth, meticulously sourced material in the world. If he were, we'd all be better off, right?

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

You can't believe everything you read.

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

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

As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?

One of the great ironies of American political life in the 2020s is that the people most exercised about the spread of false information are frequently peddlers of it. Their lack of self-understanding arises from the belief that the primary factor separating their side from the other side isn’t ideology, principle or moral vision but information—raw data requiring no interpretation and no argument over its importance. It is a hopelessly simpleminded worldview—no one apprehends reality without the aid of interpretive lenses.

Don't trust everything you see on TV.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.

I think more and more people are starting to understand that you can't believe half of everything you read or what you see. There are so many information outlets that are available that it's almost too much, there is so much misinformation out there.

There's so much active misinformation and it's packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect.