Quotes and Sayings about Fake News

We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it.

Timur Vermes in Look Who's Back

Newspapers

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Paul Claudel

Truth Conspiracy Theories

Fake news travel quick and far.

Mino Raiola - April 2021

April 1st - The only day of the year where people question the stuff they read on the internet.

April 1st

You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.

Shiva Ayyadurai

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

James Fenimore Cooper

USA

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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Media Television

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Jay-Z

Media

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

River Phoenix

Media

Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

Terry Gilliam - Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

Media Television

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

Julian Assange

Media

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

Tammy Faye Bakker

Media Newspapers

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Jim Morrison

Media

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

Words Writing Media

One should never forget, that society would rather be amused than instructed.

Adolph von Knigge

Media Television

Give me your love and not your like!

Internet Social Media

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Joanne K. Rowling

Internet Teenagers

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

John Green

Internet

People can say some extraordinary things when they're hiding behind a keyboard.

Dave Myers

Internet

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Bill Gates

Internet

The Internet is like a wave. You either learn to swim with it or you sink.

Bill Gates

Internet

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Stephen Hawking

Internet Brain

In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a... collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.

Elon Musk - Wired Interview - 18.08.2012

Internet

Before you marry a person you should make them use a computer with slow internet, to see who they really are.

Will Ferrell

Weddings Computer Internet

Don't point fingers on the internet, because the internet will finger you right back.

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

Internet

Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.

Diana Gabaldon in Outlander -

Journalism

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

Rod Serling

Writing Freedom Journalism

A good journalist never reveals her sources.

Fabienne Beriot in Lupin - Season 1 Episode 4

Journalism

What is it with reporters? You take one person's tragedy and force the world to experience it... spread it like sickness.

Richard Morgan in The Ring

Journalism

People aren't always very fond of journalists. You know what they say - lies are soft and malleable, but the truth is sharp and inflexible.

Charlotte in Genshin Impact

Journalism

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.

Malcolm Turnbull

Freedom of Press Journalism

Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.

Alexei Navalny

Journalism

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

Jon Stewart

Journalism Facts

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Bob Woodward

Journalism

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.

Julian Assange

Journalism Facts

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Conspiracy Theories

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler Yeats

Foolishness Opinions Racism Conspiracy Theories

I dare saying that in regard of protecting us from Corona, a mask that may be uncomfortable is way more effective than a tin foil hat.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (as President of Germany) - May 2020

Coronavirus Corona-Jokes Conspiracy Theories

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Arnold H. Glasow

Opinions Conspiracy Theories Facts

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.

Timur Vermes in Look Who's Back

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.

Timur Vermes in Look Who's Back

Morning

Come on Ted, it's 2012. What do you expect, to meet some cute travel agent when you're reading a newspaper at a bookstore? None of those things exist anymore!

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 22

Newspapers 2012

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Paul Claudel

Paradise Hölle

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

Lies Truth

Current health status for the ones wondering: pissed off. Second time in 4 months they kill me.

Mino Raiola - April 2022, about false news about his death

April Fool's day? My life is a joke all year long!

April 1st

Human beings do want peace, stability and harmony and that comes through democracy.

Shiva Ayyadurai

Democracy

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

James Fenimore Cooper

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