Howard Gardner Quotes

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.

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.

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.

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

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

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

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

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

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

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

We live in an age where people can not only choose their own sources, but they can choose their own facts.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.