Gavin Esler Quotes

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.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

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

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what's real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

I'm very wary of news on television.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

You can never trust what you read.