Billy Graham Quotes

I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

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 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.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

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

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.

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

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

I only know what I read in the papers.

The media's job is to question a premise.

I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

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.