Erna Solberg Quotes

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

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

The 'Fake News Alert' Chrome extension, created by 'New York Magazine' journalist Brian Feldman, identifies hoax news articles. However, cutting out fake news source entirely from operating is easier said than done, since anyone with internet access can create fake news.

The media's job is to question a premise.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

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.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

I'm very wary of news on television.

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

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

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

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

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

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.

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.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins