information discernment Quotes

Editing is agonizing, fretting over facts; it’s not virtue-signaling or confusing the ephemeral with the eternal. Unless we can tell the difference between the meaningful and the meaningless, the material and the immaterial, we will be lost in illogic.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

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

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not.

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

The pitfall of what's happening in the media is if you're under thirty, you get your news from the Internet and The Daily Show, and there's not much discrimination between what they find on the front page of The New York Times and what they find on the Internet. That's not a bad thing, in the sense that people don't get spoon - fed anymore.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information on the same level. Everything has the same value, whether it's Albert Einstein speaking, or yoohoo27@msn.com.