Brian Urlacher Quotes

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

The media can't get anything straight.

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.

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

I think what I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera on air are not particularly believed and quite often not true and its an extraordinary position to be in when you've had WhatsApp messages, text messages off record.

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

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.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.