Brian Stelter Quotes

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

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.

Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the Internet seems valuable for exactly the opposite reason: You can get your news without a filter.

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.

I don't read the press that much.

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

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

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

I don't read all the newspapers.

I just hope that people get a variety of news sources to keep themselves informed.

I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

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

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

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.

I only know what I read in the papers.

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

I don't watch the media that much.

It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

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.

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

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.