Daniel Levitin Quotes

I'm very wary of news on television.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

How do you know the news is reliable if you didn’t gather it yourself?

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

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 read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

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 became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

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

I don't watch television. I know better than that.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

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.