The White Stripes rocker Jack White has branded journalists as the "laziest people on earth" after years of reading false facts about his band. The Hotel Yorba star now refuses to believe anything he reads in the music press. He says, "Journalists are inherently the laziest people on earth. Even in the age of Google, they don't do any work to check what they're writing about."I'd say 90 per cent of what they get is from the press release. We have fun putting things in there - like in the press release for (The White Stripes' 2003 album) Elephant, somebody inserted a joke about how none of our studio equipment was made after 1963."Before you knew it, people thought we wouldn't touch a piece of equipment unless it's 60 years old or something. It gets to the point where you're answering questions based on a joke somebody made."White adds, "Anytime I pick up a music magazine, I assume 90 per cent of it is incorrect, so I make up my own things to believe. Everyone knows the phrase 'Don't believe everything you read,' but how many people actually practice it?"The White Stripes shot to fame with their albums White Blood Cells and Elephant but rumours have been widely circulated about the relationship between Jack and Meg White brother and sister, husband and wife.
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