Kurt Loder Quotes

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

I only know what I read in the papers.

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

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

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

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.

I always recommend navigating the landscape and understanding where it's coming from, so don't get your media from just one source; get it from a variety of different sources but understand the bias and the source.

As an independent skeptical of all news stations and wanting to understand diverse perspectives, I tend to navigate between CNN, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and yes, FOX.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

I think it's important in a democracy such as ours that we have multiple sources to get news and information and utilize the media only if we want to get a different opinion.

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 great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

TV news is not very instructive.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.