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In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?


Neil Postman


#ignorance #knowledge #media #nate-silver #opinions

You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don’t take it personally, it’s simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.


Steve Maraboli


#courage #decisions #inspiration #leader #life

Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated "I am interested in your nipples" or not.


David Thorne


#nipples #opinions #humor

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.


Daniel Okrent


#complicated #context #fact #issue #opinions

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.


Ali MacGraw


#any #bad #career #during #feel

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.


Josh Billings


#fools #kinds #opinions #their #those

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.


Josh Billings


#come #corrected #most #opinions #own

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.


Joan Blades


#because #distributor #established #how #information

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.


Toi Derricotte


#asks #being #besides #care #experience

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.


Gore Vidal


#down #facts #kind #loose #more






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