Jesse Ventura Quotes

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

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

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

A labouring man ... read and study halfe his time, and then be at a loss to know what is true and what not. Thus the few have almost ruined the Libberty of the press.

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

I hope 'Split Image' educates.

I only know what I read in the papers.

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

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

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.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn't what I do. I defend.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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

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

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

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.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.