You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Facts are stubborn things.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges… If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I’d care to know about you.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

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

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

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

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

I don’t follow politics much.

No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

We’re news junkies in my house.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.