Ben Hecht Quotes

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.

I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

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

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

Most of the media's stories are accurate. My problem is that they are not complete.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.

The cool thing about Snapchat is you can get a lot of news on there now. There's CNN, ESPN, and I find myself reading the most random articles. I don't know how it actually benefits me, but it's interesting. I like to stay up on current events, so I have to give kudos to Snapchat: they've done a good job of that. But I'm on there way too much.

When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever.

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.

Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.

The news is so instantly available to us without delay, interpretation, or a filter. What is hot right now is streamed live without context or perspective.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

A person has already made the effort once they open a paper or turn on the news. They want to know what's going on in the world around them. That, in itself, shows they care. But the problem is, most people say, 'That's terrible,' and then move on. Because they find it too difficult to look at.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.