Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 141. Today,  we
have another one by Thomas Jefferson.
Of course, he was a former president and I believe the third president of the United States. He's also the one
that wrote the Declaration of
Independence. So he is definitely one of the founding fathers. Let's take a look at his quote. "The man who
reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Okay. Let's look at the note. What Thomas
Jefferson is referring to in this quote
is fake news. Many people tend to think
that fake news is something new,  but if you
study quotes or study history,  you will
see fake news is as old as the hills. Okay. The quote by Thomas Jefferson would
be equivalent of saying that people who pay
no attention to the news today would be better educated than people
who pay attention to only the mainstream
media. You know the main news networks
that are out there. You know MSN, CNN, The New York Times even Fox
News. Even those. A lot of them have a lot
of rich powerful interests. They kind of
control that or hold them back or even
at worst, maybe,  you know put
pressure on them to report the news in a
particular way. Remember this is,  this is
also connected to remember back.  Another
quote I did a long time ago by Mark
Twain. When I first heard it I thought it
was a Denzel Washington quote.  I seen on the
news and Denzel Washington,  he was,  he was
asked about the news and well he was saying,  if you don't pay any
attention to the news, 
you're uninformed and if you do pay
attention to the news you're misinformed. 
It's the same thing.  he was saying you,
you have to be careful. Don't trust
everything that the mainstream news
tells you. It is the same thing . So when I
actually I was going to give credit
originally to Denzel Washington,  but when
I started researching it,  I found out
well Denzel Washington actually just
repeated a Mark Twain quote. And I give
him credit for that because you don't
hear that a lot in Hollywood. Anyway. Let's continue here,  I think even back in his
time Thomas Jefferson knew that
newspapers and journalists could be
bought and paid to produce media for or
against any agenda that rich powerful
interest want to influence. So Thomas Jefferson , he
thought like you know maybe , if you read
a lot of books and stuff like that maybe
you were better educated. But just
newspapers even he was saying even in
his time. Even with our founding fathers
saying you can't completely trust what
the newspapers are saying. They are too  easily
influenced or  too easily bribed or controlled. One
way or another or the special interest buys
them up. So we need to be careful.  Okay.  Let's go on. To influence or brainwash
the public way.  So anyway I hope you got
it. 
I hope it is food  for thought. Remember,
most of the news,  nowadays , comes from two
major news sources.  I think it's AP and
Reuters. And if you research and you find
out who really owned them. You will
realize that powerful interests own them. And they
control a lot and a lot of that news is
the news that most other networks get their news from. Anyway
again. I hope is a formative.  I hope it was
useful. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
