Megyn Kelly Quotes

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

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

The public's not stupid.

The public are not stupid.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

In the old days, there were three networks, and all of a sudden, Walter Cronkite is the most trusted man in America. Everybody believes what he says, not even thinking. In those days, we didn't even know it was being spun. We were very willing to just listen to it and go along with.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

When the people perceive that the print media is reporting what they believe is correct, then they tend to read the print media and to follow news on the television.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

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

When the people believe that the print media and the government-controlled TV are not really reporting what is happening, then people turn away from them, and their next resort is, of course, to access the Internet and what they can get on the Internet.

Don't believe the fake media.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.

I was told that television will be very difficult. But I think everyone just hypes it.

If you watch a news channel, you wouldn't then say that that person who's watching the news channel thinks everything that the news channel puts out. You wouldn't think that.